On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:49:24 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> From CR:
> The useful/general BasicHashtable uses a block allocation scheme to 
> reportedly reduce fragmentation. When the StringTable and SymbolTable used to 
> use this hashtable, performance benefits were reportedly observed because of 
> the block allocation scheme. Since these tables were moved to the concurrent 
> hashtables, the tables left that use the block allocation scheme are:
> 
> AdapterHandlerLibrary, ResolutionError, LoaderConstraints, Leak profiler 
> bitset table and Placeholders. 3 of these tables are very small and never 
> needed block allocation to prevent fragmentation at least. Also there are 3 
> KVHashtables, which are built from BasicHashtable. 2 are used during dumping 
> and 1 is ID2KlassTable which appears small.
> 
> ModuleEntry, PackageEntry, Dictionary, G1RootSet for nmethods, and 
> JvmtiTagMap tables didn't use the block allocation scheme.
> 
> Removing this removes 7 pointers per table, and for each ClassLoaderData, 
> which has 3 tables, removes 21 pointers.
> 
> This change was performance tested on linux and windows.
> 
> It was also tested with tier1-6.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 5bc382fb
Author:    Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/5bc382fb
Stats:     178 lines in 16 files changed: 10 ins; 131 del; 37 mod

8263976: Remove block allocation from BasicHashtable

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, iklam

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3123

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