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

test/hotspot/jtreg/gc/stress/gcold/TestGCOldWithShenandoah.java line 3:

> 1: /*
> 2: * Copyright (c) 2016, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
> 3: * Copyright Amazon.com Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

General comment: Looking at the history, I might have expected RedHat copyright 
headers also for many of these tests, but that isn't a change that's happened 
with generational shenandoah. So, nothing for us to do in this PR.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14185#discussion_r1221136441

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