On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:59:10 GMT, Kevin Walls <kev...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Test update to cope with heap size changing (shrinking) in the early life of >> the test app. >> >> A change in GC timing affects this test which reads eden size and heap size. >> Both eden and heap are likely to shrink initially for this test. Failures >> were that heap size shrank after reading eden size, such that eden appeared >> to be >100% of heap. >> Recognising a shrinking heap and retrying resolves this. >> >> (Re-ordering to read heap size then eden would be enough to make the check >> in provokeGc work. But it would allocate sometimes a very small fraction of >> the heap, which is not the intent.) > > Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Remove else. Add comment. OK thanks for all the comments, this is looking like a reasonable robustness improvement, and I can't trigger a failure. Will integrate. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10218
