RFR (XXS): JDK-8037495: Remove platform specific specification of SurvivorRatio for BSD

[Mikael Gerdin]

Bengt,

On Monday 17 March 2014 09.15.40 Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Can I have a couple of reviews for this very small cleanup?
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8037495/webrev.00/

Looks good, ship it!
/Mikael

> 
> 
>  From the bug report:
> 
> The SurvivorRatio flag used to be a platform dependent flag. It was
> changed to a platform independent flag with this change from October 2009:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/473cce303f13
> 
> /src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
> 
> - product_pd(intx, SurvivorRatio, \
> + product(intx, SurvivorRatio, 8, \
> 
> However, when the BSD port was integrated in 2011 the platform specific
> definition for BSD came in along with the port:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/f08d439fab8c
> 
> /src/os_cpu/bsd_x86/vm/globals_bsd_x86.hpp
> 
> +define_pd_global(intx, SurvivorRatio, 8);
> 
> Both definitions are using the same default value, so there should be no
> need to have this platform dependent.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bengt