RFR: 8343978: Update the default value of CodeEntryAlignment for Ampere-1A and 1B

[Dean Long]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:01:23 GMT, Liming Liu <lliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR updates the default value of CodeEntryAlignment for Ampere-1A and 1B from 64 to 32. The microbenchmark CodeCacheStress shows that frontend stall becomes ~21% smaller by the change, and IPC increases by ~2.8%. The benefits persist after CodeCacheSegmentSize changes from 64 back to 128.
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> Ran JTReg tier1 on Ampere-1A and no new issues were found.

Looks good.  Does this change not help CPU_MODEL_AMPERE_1?

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Marked as reviewed by dlong (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22134#pullrequestreview-2535539536