RFR: 8371701: Add ability to set NUMA-affinity for threads [v3]

[Albert Mingkun Yang]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:43:47 GMT, Joel Sikström <jsikstro at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> This PR adds support for setting the affinity of threads to run on CPUs associated with specific NUMA nodes on Linux. Support for this is needed for [JDK-8371702](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8371702) to improve performance in the Relocation Phase of ZGC on a NUMA machine.
>> 
>> Testing:
>> * I've run significant performance testing locally on a NUMA machine and performed functional testing to see that the affinity is actually changed. Affinity of a thread can be inspected on Linux using `taskset -cp <tid>`.
>> * Running through Oracle's tier1-2
>
> Joel Sikström has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove comparison

Marked as reviewed by ayang (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28261#pullrequestreview-3459873416