Backporting the TCP Loopack fast path (Windows) improvement to JDK 8 - JDK-8060170

[Seán Coffey]

Thanks for the updates Martin. The CCC has since been approved for 
porting to JDK 8u. I'll get around to an approval request & push early 
this week.

regards,
Sean.

On 14/12/2014 15:04, Martin Sawicki (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> As requested, attached is the patch file.
> To create the patch, the unshuffle_patch.sh script from jdk9 repo was applied to the jdk9 patch to transform the file names back to the jdk8 project structure. The resulting patch was cleanly applied to jdk8u-dev.
> If you could help with whatever other steps of the process we're missing, that would be appreciated!
> Best regards
>
> Martin (and Kirk and Valeriy)
> Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
> A subsidiary of Microsoft Corp.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seán Coffey [mailto:sean.coffey at oracle.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:54 AM
> To: Martin Sawicki (MS OPEN TECH); jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Cc: Valery Kopylov (Akvelon); Kirk Shoop (MS OPEN TECH)
> Subject: Re: Backporting the TCP Loopack fast path (Windows) improvement to JDK 8
>
> Martin,
>
> does the JDK 9 patch apply cleanly to the jdk8u code base (bar any path name changes) ?
>
> The CCC was logged for JDK 9 only - We'd need one approved for JDK 8u before a push can be made.  I can help out there if necessary. Also - we can't accept patches hosted on non OpenJDK infrastructure ? Could you reply and append the jdk.patch file (as per webrev generation) to this mail ?
>
> Regards,
> Sean.
>
> On 09/12/2014 17:45, Martin Sawicki (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We'd like to propose to backport our TCP loopback fast path improvement for Windows that was recently accepted into JDK9 to JDK8:
>> (JDK9 fix for reference:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/26e6402772c8)
>>
>> Our suggested JDK8 webrev package can be found here:
>> https://openjdkcontrib.blob.core.windows.net/tcploopback/jdk8-webrev-2
>> 0141105.zip
>>
>> We'd appreciate your review and acceptance of this contribution.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin Sawicki (and Kirk Shoop, and Valeriy Kopylov) Microsoft Open
>> Technologies, Inc.
>>