[8u] RFR Backport of 8217896: Make better use of LCPUs when building on AIX

[Andrew Hughes]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 16:17, Andrew Leonard <andrew_m_leonard at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Please can I request a review of this updated patch for 8217896 to
> backport to jdk8u. The patch is essentially the same, but jdk8 the
> build-performance.m4 is in a different location, with a different
> copyright year, and the generated-configure.sh generation.. I have built
> and tested this on our AIX machines.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aleonard/8217896/webrev.03/
> Once reviewed I will add the jdk8u-fix-request.
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Leonard
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Patch looks fine to me.

Out of interest, I presume the lcpu field is present with the same
value as prtconf on non-SMT machines, but has a higher value than that
returned by prtconf on SMT machines?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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