Review request (S): 7179517 Enable NUMA by default on NUMA hardware

[Eric Caspole]

I am hoping one of you guys can do it - I have never used Solaris and  
I don't know if there is any special thing to take into account there.


On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

> Why there is no changes for Solaris?
>
> Vladimir
>
> On 7/2/12 3:57 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This change is to turn on UseNUMA per default on NUMA hardware. It  
>> has been contributed by Eric Caspole. I'm fine with
>> the change but we need at least one official reviewer.
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/7179517/webrev/
>>
>> Testing:
>> I ran it through JPRT and did some local sanity testing.
>> Eric has tested this on SPECjbb2005 and SPECjvm2008 with a variety  
>> of heap sizes and it is never worse than the current
>> default. In some cases, especially with Windows, running a test  
>> with the current default and getting bad NUMA placement
>> will be about 3x slower than the +UseNUMA score.
>>
>> The performance team are involved to perform some larger scale  
>> testing.
>>
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