JDK-8236245 : Release Note: Shenandoah: asynchronous object/region pinning
  • Type: Sub-task
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: gc
  • Affected Version: 14
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2019-12-19
  • Updated: 2020-01-13
  • Resolved: 2019-12-19
Description
When dealing with JNI Get*Critical methods, Shenandoah employs object/region pinning, instead of using the GCLocker. Until now, the inefficient pinning implementation have caused real-world scalability problems on workloads that use a lot of JNI, for example gzip and graphics. This was improved, and scalability bottleneck should be resolved. This fix was also backported to 8-shenandoah and 11-shenandoah.