RFR (XXS): 8143220: Fix documentation of InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Mon Feb 8 10:53:59 UTC 2016


Hi Jon,

  I mixed all suggestions so far into the one provided at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8143220/webrev.2/

Some more comments below.

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 13:26 -0800, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> I would leave out the part about InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent being
> used as the initial value for IHOP because not enough data has been 
> gathered to make a better estimate.  While true today it may change 
> and I don't think it is needed as part of the description. 


Has already been removed earlier.

>  Explaining what happens when it is 100 would be good.

Done. I just wrote that this disables concurrent marking because that
is probably the important effect that is important for a user.

> I added the explanation about fragmentation (is it correct) because I
> thought that it would come up sooner or later but you can drop it, if 
> you think it is too much.  So I would suggest.

Done.

Thanks,
  Thomas




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