> 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.
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