[8u] RFA JDK-8158012: Use SW prefetch instructions instead of BIS for allocation prefetches on SPARC Core C4

[Rob McKenna]

Approved

    -Rob

On 20/04/18 04:15, Muthusamy Chinnathambi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> May I get the approval of backport of 'JDK-8158012: Use SW prefetch instructions instead of BIS for allocation prefetches on SPARC Core C4' to jdk8u.
> 
> Jdk9 bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158012
> Jdk9 review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2016-December/025089.html
> Jdk8 review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-July/027561.html
>                                     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-August/028107.html
> Enhancement request approval thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2017-August/006880.html
>                                                                         http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-April/007392.html
> 
> Regards,
> Muthusamy C