RFR 8139875: [TESTBUG] Improve nsk/stress/stack/* tests

[Harold Seigel]

Hi David,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Please review this updated webrev that uses 
-Xss200K for all of the tests.

    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8139875.2/webrev/index.html

Thanks, Harold

On 8/3/2020 7:04 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Harold,
>
> On 4/08/2020 4:11 am, Harold Seigel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review these small changes to reduce the amount of time 
>> required by some of the nsk/stress/stack tests in order to prevent 
>> them from timing out.  The changes include using -Xss to run the 
>> tests with smaller stacks, prevent running with -Xcomp, and, for test 
>> stack019, reduce the number of test iterations.
>
> Is there a reason to use a range of -Xss values in different tests 
> instead of just, say, using -Xss200K in all of them and reducing the 
> execution time further.
>
> Thanks,
> David
> -----
>
>> Test stack019 was excluded from windows targets because, even with 
>> the reduced iterations, the test was running for > 48 minutes.
>>
>> Open Webrev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8139875/webrev/index.html
>>
>> JBS Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139875
>>
>> The tests were tested by running them in Mach5 tier5 and tier7 and 
>> looking at their execution time.
>>
>> Thanks, Harold
>>