--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/parallel/psParallelCompact.cpp	Fri Dec 21 08:18:59 2018 -0800
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/parallel/psParallelCompact.cpp	Fri Dec 21 08:23:55 2018 -0800
@@ -1995,7 +1995,10 @@
   assert(young_gen->virtual_space()->alignment() ==
          old_gen->virtual_space()->alignment(), "alignments do not match");
 
-  if (!(UseAdaptiveSizePolicy && UseAdaptiveGCBoundary)) {
+  // We also return false when it's a heterogenous heap because old generation cannot absorb data from eden
+  // when it is allocated on different memory (example, nv-dimm) than young.
+  if (!(UseAdaptiveSizePolicy && UseAdaptiveGCBoundary) ||
+      ParallelScavengeHeap::heap()->ps_collector_policy()->is_hetero_heap()) {
     return false;
   }