RFR: 8324995: Shenandoah: Skip to full gc for humongous allocation failures

Tue Jan 30 19:56:44 UTC 2024

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:37:46 GMT, William Kemper <wkemper at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Shenandoah degenerated cycles do not compact regions. When a humongous allocation fails, it is likely due to fragmentation which is better addressed by a full gc.

Kelvin developed the original change. I'm just porting it from the shenandoah development repo.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17638#issuecomment-1917763651