Backporting the TCP loopback fast path (Windows) improvement to OpenJDK v7

[Seán Coffey]

Hey Martin,

I can help in getting this enhancement ported to jdk7u-dev. I'm just 
waiting on approval for use of new system property in jdk7u release. 
Once I have that, I can get this in.

regards,
Sean.

On 08/01/15 20:01, Martin Sawicki (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
> Hello again,
> We'd like to propose to back-port our TCP loopback fast path performance improvement for Windows that was recently accepted into OpenJDK v9 and v8 into v7.
> Just for reference, the original OpenJDK v9 fix just for reference can be found here: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/26e6402772c8.
>
> Our suggested webrev patch file for OpenJDK *v7* is attached to this message, based on our understanding of the back-porting steps.
>
> Your review and acceptance of this contribution would be appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Sawicki (and Kirk Shoop, and Valeriy Kopylov)
> Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
> A subsidiary of Microsoft Corp.
>