Feasibility to backport new allocation event and event throttling to JDK 8,11

[Jaroslav Bachorík]

Hi Mukilesh,

For JDK 11 the backport is achievable and I am already working on it.
Although it is not 'trivial' it is straight forward enough to allow
applying it safely on top of JDK 11u.

For JDK 8 the situation might be drastically different - while JFR was
backported in whole the JDK itself may miss features, changes and
adjustments the event throttling relies on (atomic operations come to
mind).

Cheers,

-JB-

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:54 PM Mukilesh Sethu
<mukilesh.sethu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I could see new allocation event and event throttling was added recently(
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/1624). I was wondering if we could
> backport these changes to JDK 8,11. I am just checking if there are any
> concerns in backporting these changes to JDK 8,11 as it introduces new
> event and new event functionality (throttling). From the initial look I
> think backport should be trivial, please let me know what you think ?
>
> Thanks,
> Mukilesh