On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:47:28 GMT, Chris Plummer <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Hi Lin,
>> Sure, let's discuss -histo in this thread first.
>> 
>> Hi @sspitsyn @plummercj @linzang 
>> My following point is based on my humble opinion that parallel=N is not 
>> necessary for user and we should use the largest parallel capability of JVM 
>> to do heap histo when user intend to do it in parallel. But if you think 
>> this basic opinion is not that correct, please kindly ignore following 
>> opinion. :-)
>> IMHO, maybe we could make the option simple and automatically speed up heap 
>> scan by disabling "parallel=" option and adding "noparallel" at the same 
>> time? From user's point of view, "noparallel" will speed up their histo/dump 
>> automatically, if they are migrating from jdk15 or prior to jdk15, and also 
>> give them a way to fall back to previous serial scan if they would like to 
>> do that. Although This way will introduce the compability issue, fortunately 
>> JDK16 is not LTS, and maybe we could backport to 16 updates if necessary?
>> How do you think about it? Thanks for discussion.
>> 
>> ( BTW, I might not be able to response timely, as it will be long public 
>> holiday the next few days, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. )
>
> I'm in favor of just having a `noparallel` option (default to using parallel) 
> instead of using `parallel=<n>`. This would be for both the histo and heap 
> dump features, and for both the `jmap` and `jcmd` support of these features.
> 
> As for the current `parallel=<n>` support for jmap histo already in JDK 16, 
> hopefully there would be no objections to removing that in JDK 17 in favor of 
> the `noparallel` approach, but I think the CSR for that change should get 
> some good scrutiny. I think it would good to get approval from @AlanBateman 
> and/or @dholmes-ora since they are both in the CSR group and have good 
> serviceability knowledge.
> 
> For reference, the JDK 16 CSR for adding `parallel=<n>` support to `jmap 
> -histo` is [8239290](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8239290), and 
> the bug to change this to a `noparallel` opiton in JDK 17 is 
> [JDK-8261482](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8261482). I don't 
> think there is a CSR yet.

Dear All, 
I took the liberity to create a PR (#2519) for the "noparallel" option. Maybe 
we could discuss there.  And I also found @Hamlin-Li has created a CSR for 
that. Thanks a lot!

BRs,
Lin

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2379

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