RFR (M): 8188764: Obsolete AssumeMP and then remove all support for non-MP builds
Doerr, Martin
martin.doerr at sap.com
Tue Sep 18 06:37:39 UTC 2018
Hi David,
> It is still used for spin-loop and related optimisations. Badly tuned
> spinloops on uniprocessors could be a significant performance issue.
> Keeping the is_MP check on a MP system is no hindrance as its just part
> of the spin-loop.
So this means you're actually fixing this.
os::is_MP is always true in the current implementation (due to "AssumeMP ||").
Thanks for explaining.
Shared code part looks fine.
Thanks,
Martin
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