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

[Zoltán Majó]

HI Nils,


On 02/26/2016 02:50 PM, Nils Eliasson wrote:
> [...]
> Removing these test solves this issue in the JPRT run, but they will 
> still run in nightlies. We should still file bugs for making these 
> tests faster.

Yes, I agree. There is an existing bug, INTJDK-7620326, and I linked the 
current issue to that one.

Best regards,


Zoltan

>
> Regards,
> Nils
>
>>
>> I filed INTJDK-7622854: "Track the execution time of JPRT tests 
>> groups" so that we can better track the execution times of the 
>> hotspot_compiler_[1-3] test groups.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Zoltan
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>> On 2/25/16 8:12 AM, Zoltán Majó wrote:
>>>> Hi Nils,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thank you for the feedback!
>>>>
>>>> On 02/25/2016 04:22 PM, Nils Eliasson wrote:
>>>>> Hi Zoltan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you opened a bug for fixing the tests?
>>>>
>>>> No, I have not, because there is an existing issue (INTJDK-7620326) 
>>>> that is supposed to take care of the high execution
>>>> time of intrinsic-related tests on platforms where the relevant 
>>>> intrinsics are not available. I've linked the two issues.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we really want to remove the String intrinsics from the list? 
>>>>> aren't they pretty new?
>>>>
>>>> You are right, they are in part new (in part old intrinsics have 
>>>> been updated). I thought to remove them nevertheless,
>>>> because they take a long time to execute and are anyway executed in 
>>>> our nightlies.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zoltan
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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