RFR: 8277992: Add fast jdk_svc subtests to jdk:tier3

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:48:15 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> OpenJDK tiered tests definitions have the catch-all `tier4` that runs all tests not defined in the lower tiers. `hotspot:tier4` has lots of them, mostly long-running vmTestbase tests, which take many hours even on a very parallel machines.
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> This, unfortunately, has a chilling effect on `jdk:tier4`, which is seldom run by contributors, because `hotspot:tier4` is in the way. But, there are plenty of fast and stable tests in `jdk:tier4` that can be run in `jdk:tier3`. `jdk_svc` is the example of such tests: management features (including but not limited to JFR) are important to keep from regressions, and significant subset of them runs pretty fast.
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> So, it makes sense to move some `jdk_svc` tests to `jdk:tier3` to expose it to more contributors. I think the only group we don't want to run is `svc_tools`, which includes lots of non-parallel tests that are rather slow.
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> Sample run before:
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> 
> ==============================
> Test summary
> ==============================
>    TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR   
>    jtreg:test/jdk:tier3                                174   174     0     0   
> ==============================
> TEST SUCCESS
> 
> Finished building target 'run-test' in configuration 'linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug'
> 
> real	2m38.242s
> user	80m7.216s
> sys	2m13.846s
> 
> 
> ==============================
> Test summary
> ==============================
>    TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR   
>>> jtreg:test/jdk:tier4                               2904  2901     3     0 <<
> ==============================
> TEST FAILURE
> 
> real	18m13.933s
> user	546m50.556s
> sys	25m7.086s
> 
> 
> Sample run after:
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> 
> ==============================
> Test summary
> ==============================
>    TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR   
>    jtreg:test/jdk:tier3                               1296  1296     0     0   
> ==============================
> TEST SUCCESS
> 
> Finished building target 'run-test' in configuration 'linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug'
> 
> real	7m49.017s
> user	287m30.943s
> sys	13m20.060s
> 
> ==============================
> Test summary
> ==============================
>    TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR   
>>> jtreg:test/jdk:tier4                               1783  1780     3     0 <<
> ==============================
> TEST FAILURE
> 
> 
> real	12m19.973s
> user	351m48.561s
> sys	14m51.566s

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6619