Review Request: Newer AMD Processor Prefetch Defaults

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Tom,

I created next bug and your changes looks good. So hw prefetches become smart 
enough to replace sw prefetch?

7028394: Newer AMD Processor Prefetch Defaults

Thanks,
Vladimir

Deneau, Tom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this patch which changes a flag default for some
> newer AMD processors.  The webrev is at
> 
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tdeneau/bd-prefetch/webrev.01/
> 
> This new default has shown improvement across many workloads.
> I do not have a bug id for this.
> 
> -- Tom Deneau, AMD
> 
>