RFR: 8260004: Shenandoah: Rename ShenandoahMarkCompact to ShenandoahFullGC

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:02:24 GMT, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This nomenclature might become problematic when generational Shenandoah becomes a thing. Then, what we do now, collecting the complete heap, as opposed to only the young generation, might be mistaken as 'full gc' too.
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>> This nomenclature might become problematic when generational Shenandoah becomes a thing. Then, what we do now, collecting the complete heap, as opposed to only the young generation, might be mistaken as 'full gc' too.
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> Does "full GC" always mean complete heap collection?  G1 calls it FullCollector and supporting classes all prefix with FullGC ...

I vote for this rename. We already report "Pause Full" for this operation, so it is "Full GC". The generational extension would probably call their phases "young" and "mixed" concurrent GC?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2266