RFR: Use soft max capacity only for trigger calculations [v2]

[William Kemper]

On Wed, 17 May 2023 20:48:30 GMT, Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna <ysr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> William Kemper has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Add comment for new method
>>  - Re-problem list test with intermittent failures
>
> src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahHeap.cpp line 513:
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>> 511:   // for old would be total heap - minimum capacity of young. This means the sum of the maximum
>> 512:   // allowed for old and young could exceed the total heap size. It remains the case that the
>> 513:   // _actual_ capacity of young + old = total.
> 
> Not your change, but it seems like this comment might belong in the _declaration_ of `max_capacity()` (or of `_max_capacity`), rather than here?

I believe this code will also be replaced soon.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/shenandoah/pull/280#discussion_r1198073198