[8u] Request for enhancement backport approval for 8144019

[Rob McKenna]

Approved on the understanding that Volker is happy with it. Volker,
would you mind commenting?

    -Rob

On 07/04/17 01:06, Hiroshi H Horii wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Could you please approve the backport of the following ppc64 change to 
> jdk8u-dev?
> 
> 8144019: PPC64 C1: Introduce Client Compiler
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144019
> Webrev: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/4a24de859a87
> Review: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2015-December/020229.html
> URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/4a24de859a87
> 
> Though the original patch includes many changes in shared, we will be able 
> to reduce them to less than 100 lines of changes in shared.
> 
> Regards,
> Hiroshi
> -----------------------
> Hiroshi Horii, Ph.D.
> IBM Research - Tokyo
>