RFR: 8272846: Move some runtime/Metaspace/elastic/ tests out of tier1

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:12:30 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> See the bug report for more discussion. Attention @tstuefe -- is it time yet to do this?
> 
> Motivational run time improvements:
> 
> 
> $  make run-test TEST=hotspot:tier1
> 
> # Before
> real	8m9.678s
> user	289m59.304s
> sys	27m46.347s
> 
> # After
> real	7m27.566s
> user	284m4.947s
> sys	27m33.724s
> 
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] `tier1` no longer runs these tests
>  - [x] `hotspot_tier2_runtime` runs these tests

Looks good. They still would be run as part of tier2, right? Speaking of which, is there a description somewhere what the tiers  mean and what the rules are for adding things to them?

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Marked as reviewed by stuefe (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5222