PING: Re: Patch: improve huge page support

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:13 Thu 19 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 18:17:16 +0100
> From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>
> To: distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Patch: improve huge page support
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> On 05/13/2011 04:03 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > On 05/12/2011 05:47 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >> Looks ok for HEAD to me, assuming it still builds.
> >>
> >> Post patches for 1.9 and 1.10 and I'll approve them.  There's likely to be some
> >> churn between HotSpot versions so I wouldn't be surprised if the patch had
> >> to be rejigged.  Probably worth checking it even still works on old versions,
> >> as I don't know if this has dependencies on other changes.
> > 
> > I've checked with HS19 and 20.  This is the patch for icedtea6-1.10, 1.9
> > to follow.  This is the same as trunk, 1.9 had to be reworked.
> 
> 1.9 is problematic in that we need different patches for HotSpot.  This is
> a slightly tweaked version form hs18, the hs19 patch is the same as 1.10.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 2011-05-13  Andrew Haley  <aph at redhat.com>
> 
>         * patches/hotspot/*/7034464-hugepage.patch,
>         * patches/openjdk/7037939-hugepage.patch,
>         * patches/openjdk/7043564-hugepage.patch: Import from upstream.
>         * Makefile.am: add patches.
> 

Looks good.  Can you mention the fix in NEWS too?  With that, it's fine to commit.
-- 
Andrew :)

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