RFR(L): 8075506: aix: improve handling of native memory

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Thanks Vladimir!

Best regards,
  Goetz.

-----Original Message-----
From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Vladimir Kozlov
Sent: Mittwoch, 25. März 2015 18:53
To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: RFR(L): 8075506: aix: improve handling of native memory

Looks good. I only glanced through os_aix.cpp changes - they look fine 
from 'glance'.

Could you explain a little about allocate_stack_guard_pages() returning 
false? The comment say that you are not using normal C stack. Is it true?

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 3/25/15 1:22 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this change improves handling of native memory on aix.  It adds support for
> 64K pages and allocation at requested addresses.  This improves performance
> by a few percent.
>
> Please review this change.  It is aix-only.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/8075506-aixMem/webrev.00/
>
> Best regards,
>    Goetz.
>