compatibility issue regarding the active processor count

[Paul Hohensee]

Ditto.

paul

David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> My 2c: fix it and add a flag to restore the incorrect behaviour.
>
> David Holmes
>
> Xiaobin Lu said the following on 10/01/08 10:11:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I need your opinion about what we should do to solve the 
>> compatibility issue regarding the active processor count. Basically, 
>> the problem is on Solaris, if you create a processor set and then 
>> launch java process without binding to that processor set, the number 
>> of available processors to that java process is the total number of 
>> the online processors minus the number of processors in the processor 
>> set you created. Currently, we just report the total number of the 
>> online processors as the active processor count which is wrong. This 
>> makes the parallel garbage collector to behave in the wrong way (see 
>> bug 6749430 for details) and we need to fix it per request from CBOE.
>>
>> There may be a compatibility issue after we correct this wrong 
>> behavior when someone has already depended on this wrong return, 
>> which we think it might be rare. We definitely need to invent a new 
>> flag in order to address this and the question is whether we should 
>> keep the current behavior as default or not. Personally, I feel we 
>> should have that flag to fall back to the current wrong behavior, but 
>> I might be wrong.
>>
>> Thanks so much in advance for your opinion.
>>
>> -Xiaobin
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