On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 00:39:52 GMT, Kelvin Nilsen <kdnil...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> OpenJDK Colleagues:
>> 
>> Please review this proposed integration of Generational mode for Shenandoah 
>> GC under https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307314.
>> 
>> Generational mode of Shenandoah is enabled by adding 
>> `-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:ShenandoahGCMode=generational` to a 
>> command line that already specifies ` -XX:+UseShenandoahGC`.  The 
>> implementation automatically adjusts the sizes of old generation and young 
>> generation to efficiently utilize the entire heap capacity.  Generational 
>> mode of Shenandoah resembles G1 in the following regards:
>> 
>> 1. Old-generation marking runs concurrently during the time that multiple 
>> young generation collections run to completion.
>> 2. After old-generation marking completes, we perform a sequence of mixed 
>> collections.  Each mixed collection combines collection of young generation 
>> with evacuation of a portion of the old-generation regions identified for 
>> collection based on old-generation marking information.
>> 3. Unlike G1, young-generation collections and evacuations are entirely 
>> concurrent, as with single-generation Shenandoah.
>> 4. As with single-generation Shenandoah, there is no explicit notion of eden 
>> and survivor space within the young generation.  In practice, regions that 
>> were most recently allocated tend to have large amounts of garbage and these 
>> regions tend to be collected with very little effort.  Young-generation 
>> objects that survive garbage collection tend to accumulate in regions that 
>> hold survivor objects.  These regions tend to have smaller amounts of 
>> garbage, and are less likely to be collected.  If they survive a sufficient 
>> number of young-generation collections, the “survivor” regions are promoted 
>> into the old generation.
>> 
>> We expect to refine heuristics as we gain experience with more production 
>> workloads.  In the future, we plan to remove the “experimental” qualifier 
>> from generational mode, at which time we expect that generational mode will 
>> become the default mode for Shenandoah.
>> 
>> **Testing**: We continuously run jtreg tiers 1-4 + hotspot_gc_shenandoah, 
>> gcstress, jck compiler, jck runtime, Dacapo, SpecJBB, SpecVM, Extremem, 
>> HyperAlloc, and multiple AWS production workload simulators. We test on 
>> Linux x64 and aarch64, Alpine x64 and aarch64, macOS x64 and aarch64, and 
>> Windows x64.
>
> Kelvin Nilsen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Update copyright notices

> Hi, I have built this pr based on 
> [aa85a90](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/aa85a9073e2a71d6bf920409e739d555f9dcf302),
>  Tier1 tests failed on `gc/TestAllocHumongousFragment.java#generational` on 
> Linux/RISC-V with the following output:
> 
> ```
> #
> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
> #
> #  Internal Error (shenandoahVerifier.cpp:1244), pid=2951116, tid=2951124
> #  Error: Verify init-mark remembered set violation; clean card should be 
> dirty
> #
> # JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (21.0) (build 
> 21-internal-adhoc.ubuntu.jdk)
> # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (21-internal-adhoc.ubuntu.jdk, mixed 
> mode, sharing, tiered, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, shenandoah gc, 
> linux-riscv64)
> ```
> 
> Looks like Generational Shenandoah does not fully support RISC-V port, should 
> we disable this test on RISC-V port for now?

Fixed (platform disabled) by @kdnilsen in 
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14185/commits/cc149904d76c78355fc994da171f0f21411e903f

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14185#issuecomment-1579829038

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