Does G1 GC have a max size of region or max amount of region?

Question

when i studied G1 GC, I found this article: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/g1gc-1984535.html. In that article, there is something says as follow:

Answer 1

From HotSpot JVM sources:

  // Minimum region size; we won't go lower than that.
  // We might want to decrease this in the future, to deal with small
  // heaps a bit more efficiently.
  static const size_t MIN_REGION_SIZE = 1024 * 1024;

  // Maximum region size; we don't go higher than that. There's a good
  // reason for having an upper bound. We don't want regions to get too
  // large, otherwise cleanup's effectiveness would decrease as there
  // will be fewer opportunities to find totally empty regions after
  // marking.
  static const size_t MAX_REGION_SIZE = 32 * 1024 * 1024;

  // The automatic region size calculation will try to have around this
  // many regions in the heap (based on the min heap size).
  static const size_t TARGET_REGION_NUMBER = 2048;

• MIN_REGION_SIZE (1MB) and MAX_REGION_SIZE (32MB) are hard limits;
• TARGET_REGION_NUMBER is just a hint that is used to calculate default region size if it is not specified among JVM options. The actual number may exceed this value.