RFR (S): 8022872: G1: Use correct GC cause for young GC triggered by humongous allocations

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Wed Aug 21 19:49:13 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 21:21 +0200, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On 8/21/13 6:30 PM, Tony Printezis wrote:
> > Hi Bengt,
> >
> > (surprise!)
> 
> A nice surprise! But a surprise indeed :)
> 
> > This is a useful change. Both webrevs look good. I have a slight 
> > preference to the first one. I didn't like the use of 
> > _allocation_failure on the second one here:
> >
> >  984       result = do_collection_pause(word_size, gc_count_before, 
> > &succeeded,
> >  985           GCCause::_allocation_failure);
> >
> > given that the allocation didn't really fail - the eden is just full. 
> > The other use of _allocation_failure (in the 
> > VM_G1CollectorForAllocation closure) really implies that an allocation 
> > did fail and G1 is trying to take evasive action.
> 
> Thanks for looking at this! This was exactly the kind of feedback I was 
> looking for. As I already mentioned I'm also fine with the first webrev 
> and with this explanation I'm also in favor of that one. Unless anyone 
> else has opinions I'll go with that one. Just need one more review...

Here it is. I agree to keep the _g1_inc_collection_pause gc cause.

Change looks good.

Hth,
Thomas





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