RFR: 8265842: G1: Introduce API to run multiple separate tasks in a single gangtask [v8]

[Ivan Walulya]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:05:26 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> [JDK-8214237](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214237) is going to join different somewhat independent (sub-)tasks of the post evacuation phase into basically two gangtasks to improve performance (reduce startup and shutdown of work gangs).
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>> To facilitate doing that, introduce an API that manages subtasks of a given gangtask and provide some helpers to do common work.
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>> This CR is only about adding the API and testing to somewhat simplify the actual move of the post evacuate tasks into parallel tasks. There is no new functionality here, only to split up [JDK-8214237](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214237) a bit.
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>> [Here](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/compare/master...tschatzl:parallel-phases-join-everything) is the full change that uses this API to implement JDK-8214237 (which I'll try to split up a bit before) to see how it will be used (in [G1YoungGCPostEvacuateTasks.hpp](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/1d8667143e7d106b96c25c0b876c37f1250be132#diff-64bc43a24e11978920bb9523cb1507a7275ace22d9eead4c34177339a3258e42) ).
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>> Testing: new gtest, tier1-5 with mentioned patch for JDK-8214237.
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>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
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> Thomas Schatzl has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   sjohanss review

lgtm!

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Marked as reviewed by iwalulya (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3653