RFR (S): 8020155: PSR:PERF G1 not collecting old regions when humongous allocations interfer

[Bengt Rutisson]

On 7/11/13 4:59 PM, Per Liden wrote:
> Looks good.

Thanks Per!

Bengt

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> /Per
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> On 2013-07-11 15:27, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Could I get a couple of reviews for this small change?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8020155/webrev.00/
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>> When the marking phase finishes we signal that we should start doing 
>> mixed collections by setting _last_young_gc=true. The next GC will be 
>> a normal young GC but after that we will start doing mixed GCs.
>>
>> G1CollectorPolicy::need_to_start_conc_mark() will return false if a 
>> marking cycle is already in progress or if we are doing mixed GCs. 
>> But it did not check the intermediate state represented by 
>> _last_young_gc. Instead this was explicitly checked by 
>> G1CollectorPolicy::record_collection_pause_end() for young GCs. 
>> However, need_to_start_conc_mark() is also used by humongous object 
>> allocations in two places. So, if a humongous allocation happens 
>> after marking has finished but before the following young GC has 
>> happened, we might trigger a new marking cycle and skip the mixed GCs.
>>
>> The fix is to move the check of _last_young_gc in to 
>> need_to_start_conc_mark() to make sure that we don't skip mixed GCs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
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