On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 18:21:43 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: > > Fix budgeting assertion to allow equal or greater than We would like to thank everyone who has taken time to review and provide feedback on our pull request. Given the risks identified during the review process and the lack of time available to perform the thorough review that such a large contribution of code requires, we have decided to close this PR at the current time. We will seek to target JDK 22. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14185#issuecomment-1581509386
