Wait for sweeper threads only if we have to.

src/spaces.h

 // Copyright 2011 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef V8_SPACES_H_
 #define V8_SPACES_H_
 
 #include "src/allocation.h"
 #include "src/base/atomicops.h"
 #include "src/base/platform/mutex.h"
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   // Report code object related statistics
   void CollectCodeStatistics();
   static void ReportCodeStatistics(Isolate* isolate);
   static void ResetCodeStatistics(Isolate* isolate);
 #endif
 
   bool was_swept_conservatively() { return was_swept_conservatively_; }
   void set_was_swept_conservatively(bool b) { was_swept_conservatively_ = b; }
 
+  bool was_swept_concurrently() { return was_swept_concurrently_; }
+  void set_was_swept_concurrently(bool b) { was_swept_concurrently_ = b; }
+
   // Evacuation candidates are swept by evacuator.  Needs to return a valid
   // result before _and_ after evacuation has finished.
   static bool ShouldBeSweptBySweeperThreads(Page* p) {
     return !p->IsEvacuationCandidate() &&
            !p->IsFlagSet(Page::RESCAN_ON_EVACUATION) &&
            !p->WasSweptPrecisely();
   }
 
   void IncrementUnsweptFreeBytes(intptr_t by) {
     unswept_free_bytes_ += by;
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   // The dummy page that anchors the double linked list of pages.
   Page anchor_;
 
   // The space's free list.
   FreeList free_list_;
 
   // Normal allocation information.
   AllocationInfo allocation_info_;
 
+  // Indicates if this space was swept conservatively or precisely resulting in
+  // an non-iterable or iterable heap, respectively.

[Hannes Payer (out of office), 2014/07/02 07:02:53]

Actually, we could just store the sweeper type itself. I will do that.

   bool was_swept_conservatively_;
 
+  // Indicates if this space was swept by concurrent sweeper threads.
+  bool was_swept_concurrently_;
+
   // The number of free bytes which could be reclaimed by advancing the
   // concurrent sweeper threads.  This is only an estimation because concurrent
   // sweeping is done conservatively.
   intptr_t unswept_free_bytes_;
 
   // The sweeper threads iterate over the list of pointer and data space pages
   // and sweep these pages concurrently. They will stop sweeping after the
   // end_of_unswept_pages_ page.
   Page* end_of_unswept_pages_;
 
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   }
   // Must be small, since an iteration is used for lookup.
   static const int kMaxComments = 64;
 };
 #endif
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_SPACES_H_