Currently, we only decide whether to initiate a marking cycle at the end of an evacuation pause. This works well most of the time. However, if an application performs a lot of humongous object allocations the heap could grow quite rapidly but we will not initiate a marking cycle unless we also do an evacuation pause. This might cause a Full GC which we might be able to prevent if we initiated a marking cycle during the humongous allocations.

This CR proposes to extend the humongous object allocation path to also check the heap occupancy and initiate a marking cycle when / if needed. Given that in G1 we can only initiate marking cycles after doing an evacuation pause, we'll probably have to schedule an evacuation pause with a piggy-backed initial-mark for the marking cycle to start.