[8u] RFA for backport of 8168318: PPC64: Use cmpldi instead of li/cmpld

[David Buck]

Hi Gustavo!

As this would be a backport of an enhancement, you will need to file a 
separate enhancement backport request first. Please see rule 3 [0] for 
details.

Cheers,
-Buck

[0] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/groundrules.html

On 2017/09/29 14:40, Gustavo Romero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could the following backport be approved please?
> 
> It's a PPC64-only change and applies cleanly.
> 
> An improvement of ~1% was observed on some Neo4j benchmarks.
> 
> The original author, Igor, was from Eldorado organization which has already
> signed the OCA [1] accordingly.
> 
> Bug		: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8168318
> Changeset	: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/622d3fe587f2
> Review thread	: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2016-October/024771.html
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> Gustavo
> 
> [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html "Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado - OpenJDK"
>