RFR: JDK-8076267 - Remove n_gens()

Jesper Wilhelmsson jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Tue Mar 31 14:10:26 UTC 2015


Thanks for reviewing!
/Jesper

Joseph Provino skrev den 31/3/15 16:03:
> Looks good to me.
>
> joe
>
> On 3/31/2015 9:14 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this next cleanup in the backwaters of the generation array
>> removal. This change removes the n_gens() method and the max_gens variable
>> from GenCollectedHeap.
>>
>> Next in line in the cleanup queue is a change to remove the levels concept.
>> Mostly all places where we today pass a "level" in the GC code can be removed,
>> or be made more explicit by introducing two constants, YOUNG and OLD. Removing
>> n_gens() and the levels touches upon the same code in many places and we could
>> skip one, in some places somewhat ugly, intermediate version by doing both
>> changes at the same time. The levels removal is a much larger and trickier
>> change though, so to make it easier to review I choose to split these into two
>> changes. Please keep this in mind when reviewing the current change.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8076267
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/8076267/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Jesper
>



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