RFR (XS): 8005108: NPG: Add specialized Metachunk sizes for reflection and anonymous classloaders

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 12/18/12 04:16, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 11:47 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> I think this comment in metaspace.cpp can also be removed:
>>
>> 2220 // The total words available for metadata allocation.  This
>> 2221 // uses Metaspace capacity_words() which is the total words
>> 2222 // in chunks allocated for a Metaspace.
>
> My change just reverses some of the changes in 3854. This comment was 
> already wrong before that change.
>
> Jon, do you think I should remove or reword the comment.

Please remove the comment.  The name of the method is
descriptive enough.

Thanks.

Also, change looks good.

Jon

>
> thanks,
> StefanK
>
>> Bengt
>>
>> On 12/18/12 11:02 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8005108/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Description from the bug:
>>> ---
>>> The implementation of MetaspaceAux::used_in_bytes(), 
>>> capacity_in_bytes() and reserved_in_bytes() changed as part of this 
>>> changeset:
>>>
>>> changeset: 3854:90273fc0a981
>>> user: coleenp
>>> date: Thu Nov 29 16:50:29 2012 -0500
>>> summary: 8000662: NPG: nashorn ant clean test262 out-of-memory with 
>>> Java heap
>>>
>>> Before this change it seems like data + classes = total. After this 
>>> does not seem to hold.
>>>
>>> This can be verified by running a simple test that does System.gc() 
>>> with -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC:
>>>
>>> Change 3853:
>>>
>>>  Metaspace total 3400K, used 2760K, reserved 108544K
>>>   data space 3076K, used 2477K, reserved 6144K
>>>   class space 324K, used 283K, reserved 102400
>>>
>>>
>>> Change 3854:
>>>
>>>  Metaspace total 3400K, used 3400K, reserved 108544K
>>>   data space 3076K, used 2476K, reserved 6144K
>>>   class space 324K, used 283K, reserved 102400K
>>>
>>> In this example capacity and reserved add up, but used does not. I 
>>> have seen cases where at least capacity also did not add up.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This patch reverts back to the old implementation. We probably want 
>>> a better way to count these values, but right now we need consistent 
>>> numbers.
>>>
>>> StefanK
>>
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