RFR(M): 8150054: CompilerControl: add Xmixed for execution

[Nils Eliasson]

Thank you!

//Nils



On 2016-03-15 21:02, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Looks good
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 3/15/16 6:44 AM, Nils Eliasson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this improvement of the compiler control tests. There are
>> many files in the diff but only three kind of changes:
>>
>> 1) Most of the test spawn a separate VM that it can control with flags
>> and diagnostic commands. The launching VM just need to setup the test
>> environment and is not part of the test. We can therefore change "@run
>> main/othervm" to " @run driver". A driver can not have any flags and are
>> not affected by any flag rotation.
>>
>> 2) Change the "@run main ClassFileInstaller sun.hotspot.WhiteBox " to
>> driver too. This could be done for all the ~400 test but I have limited
>> myself to the compiler control test in this bug. In -Xcomp-batches this
>> saves ~5 seconds per ClassFileInstaller invocation on a fast machine.
>>
>> 3) Add the -Xmixed flag to Scenario.java to prevent -Xcomp from
>> interfering with testing printing and logging. It causes long run times
>> and huge logs.
>>
>> These three changes together save more than 10 minutes of test time on a
>> -Xcomp-batch on a fast x64 workstation.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8150054
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8150054/webrev.01
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nils
>>