Request for review: 6888526 Linux getCurrentThreadCpuTime is drastically slower than Windows

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/07/2010 11:56 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:

> I concur that it is time to change the default value for this flag
> so thumbs up on the webrev.
> 
> My only worry is about HSX-19 deliveries into JDK-Updates. I'll
> poke around and see if I can find a statement about the minimum
> Linux that is supported.

I don't think you have to worry about that: anything older than 2.6.9
should be fine.  However, if you want me to test on a specific older
release I'll do so.

> The majority of the JVM/TI relevant tests are internal so those
> won't do you much good. If you push this change to
> 
>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/hotspot
> 
> a.k.a. RT_Baseline, I can keep an eye on the internal test results.

OK, but I'll hold off doing until I get an ack from David Holmes.

Andrew.