--- old/src/share/vm/gc/shared/threadLocalAllocBuffer.hpp	2016-05-24 14:10:51.543306498 +0200
+++ new/src/share/vm/gc/shared/threadLocalAllocBuffer.hpp	2016-05-24 14:10:51.415301341 +0200
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
 
   static const size_t min_size()                 { return align_object_size(MinTLABSize / HeapWordSize) + alignment_reserve(); }
   static const size_t max_size()                 { assert(_max_size != 0, "max_size not set up"); return _max_size; }
+  static const size_t max_size_in_bytes()        { return max_size() * BytesPerWord; }
   static void set_max_size(size_t max_size)      { _max_size = max_size; }
 
   HeapWord* start() const                        { return _start; }