Request for Review (XS) - 8149643: Remove check of counters in VirtualSpaceNode::inc_container_count

[Kim Barrett]

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149643
> 
> As part of managing Metaspaces a running count of the
> number of Metachunks in a virtual-space is maintained.
> The count is incremented as chunks are allocated from the
> virtual-space.  The count can be verified by walking over
> all the Metachunks in the virtual space.  This change
> removes the verification code which was called each time
> the running count was incremented.  The verification is
> costly and no longer worth doing at each increment.  It is
> still verified when the virtual-space is being retired.
> 
> Contributed by: dmitry.dmitriev at oracle.com
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8149643/webrev.00/
> 
> The change is the deletion of 1 line.
> 
> --- a/src/share/vm/memory/metaspace.cpp
> 
> +++ b/src/share/vm/memory/metaspace.cpp
> 
> @@ -791,7 +791,6 @@
> 
> void VirtualSpaceNode::inc_container_count() {
> 
>   assert_lock_strong(SpaceManager::expand_lock());
> 
>   _container_count++;
> 
> -  DEBUG_ONLY(verify_container_count();)
> 
> }
> 
> 
> Testing with some specjvm benchmarks.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jon

Looks good.