Encryption fix in HotSpot

[Andrew Haley]

On 2/28/19 3:43 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 2/28/19 12:36 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 2/27/19 11:12 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>> On 2/26/19 2:59 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>>> Once 11.0.4 opens, we can start backporting these. You are welcome to do it :)
>>>
>>> Ah, that requires some benchmarking.
>>
>> Um, why? The benchmarking, if it were necessary, should have been done
>> on the upstream fix.
> 
> I'd like performance bugs to be verified during backports, if
> possible. Especially for compiler/intrinsic bugs that have a high
> chance to interact with something else and turn out to be the
> pessimization. This is not a requirement for those who do Fix
> Requests, but the more we know about things we are backporting, the
> better. Saves time fixing the post-integration regressions.
> 
>> If you really think that special benchmarking for 11u is needed,
>> please be specific about the form you believe it should
>> take. Newcomers shouldn't have to guess.
> 
> I have already did it in my Fix Request, there is a link with
> performance results:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8201633

Fair enough. So we're done, and Gidon doesn't have to do anything. That
wasn't clear to him.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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