RFR: 8191768 - Introduce a concurrency factor to be able to scale up or down jtreg concurrency when running Hotspot tests

[David Holmes]

Catching up after mini-vacation ...

On 23/11/2017 2:47 AM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
> Please review this small change that allows a user to scale up or down the concurrency for running Hotspot jtreg tests using CONCURRENCY_FACTOR.
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8191768/webrev.00/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8191768/webrev.00/>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191768 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191768>

So setting CONCURRENCY_FACTOR = 0 will ensure no concurrent tests will run?

Are we guaranteed that the higher-level testing framework will only run 
one jtreg test job per system at a time?

Thanks,
David

> Thanks,
> Christian
>