RFR: 8252368 : Undo JDK-8245002: Windows GDI functions don't support NUMA interleaving

[stefan.johansson at oracle.com]

Hi StefanK,

Looks good,
StefanJ

On 2020-08-26 13:53, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this patch to re-enable NUMA interleaving on Windows.
> 
> https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8252368/webrev.01/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252368
> 
> In JDK 15 we put in code that turns off NUMA interleaving if it is 
> detected that Windows GDI functions don't work with split memory 
> reservations. Later in JDK 16, and JDK 15.0.1, the code that uses GDI 
> was rewritten to have a fallback mechanism for these kinds of problems 
> (JDK-8240654). Because of that we don't need the workaround to turn off 
> NUMA interleaving anymore.
> 
> We also pushed a similar workaround patch to turn off large pages 
> (JDK-8245000). That is dealt with in a separate RFR (JDK-8252367). This 
> patch builds upon the changes in JDK-8252367.
> 
> I tested locally that the reproducer in JDK-8245000 doesn't reproduce 
> with the proposed patch. I also tested that also reverting the patch in 
> JDK-8240654 causes reproducer to reproduce again.
> 
> Thanks,
> StefanK