RFR (S): 8211388: Make OtherRegionsTable independent of the region it is for

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 12:37 +0200, Stefan Johansson wrote:
> 
> On 2018-10-02 17:58, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >    the OtherRegionsTable is a set of a set of cards that comprises
> > the remembered set.
> > 
> > It stores the HeapRegion it collects cards for to do filtering in
> > the FromCardCache. The set of cards should not have knowledge about
> > what region it is for, from an abstraction POV it should just be a
> > dumb container of cards.
> > 
> > Move out the HeapRegion id from OtherRegionsTable (the "set of
> > cards") into the enclosing HeapRegionRememberedSet (managing set of
> > cards), separating the FCC functionality from the raw data storage.
> > 
> > This will make code that assigns a HeapRegionRememberedSet to
> > multiple regions in the future a bit simpler too.
> > 
> > CR:
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211388
> > Webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8211388/webrev/
> 
> Nice cleanup Thomas, I agree that the old abstraction was a bit 
> confusing and I've been looking a doing a similar cleanup myself.

  thanks for your review.

Thomas