[9] RFR (S): 8150349: Reduce the execution time of the hotspot_compiler_3 group

[Nils Eliasson]

Hi Zoltan,

Have you opened a bug for fixing the tests?

Do we really want to remove the String intrinsics from the list? aren't 
they pretty new?

Thanks for fixing this,
Nils Eliasson

On 2016-02-25 15:17, Zoltán Majó wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> please review the patch for 8150349.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8150349
>
> Problem: The hotspot_compiler_3 group of tests takes more than 30 
> minutes on our slowest platforms.
>
>
> Solution: Remove a number of long-running tests from the 
> hotspot_compiler_3 group. All removed tests are related to intrinsics, 
> that is, they check the functionality of a reduced set of the VM's 
> functionality that is not often modified. Also, we execute all removed 
> tests daily (in our nightly testing).
>
> Here is the time spent in hotspot_compiler_3 on our slowest platforms 
> after removing the tests:
>
> West:
> solaris_sparcv9_5.11-fastdebug-c2-hotspot_compiler_3 success(15m 22s)
>     platform=solaris_sparc_5.11 osname=solaris osarch=sparc cpus=6 
> parallelcount=6 ram=31744MB cpufreqmhz=2848
> linux_arm64_2.6-fastdebug-c2-hotspot_compiler_3     success(19m 09s)
>     platform=linux_x64_3.8 osname=linux osarch=x64 cpus=12 
> parallelcount=12 ram=60690MB cpufreqmhz=2294
>
> Stockholm:
> solaris_sparcv9_5.11-fastdebug-c2-hotspot_compiler_3 success(15m 32s)
>     platform=solaris_sparc_5.11 osname=solaris osarch=sparc cpus=12 
> parallelcount=12 ram=24576MB    cpufreqmhz=2848
> linux_arm64_2.6-fastdebug-c2-hotspot_compiler_3     success(20m 24s)
>     platform=linux_arm64_3.13 osname=linux osarch=arm64 cpus=8 
> parallelcount=8 ram=16061MB
>
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zmajo/8150349/webrev.00/
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Zoltan
>