Shenandoah and aarch64

[Andrew Hughes]

On 20/03/2020 01:02, guoge (A) wrote:
>>> Well, pretty much same as jdk11. We want to first backport LRB and 
>>> friends, which should clean up the shared code changes very 
>>> considerably. And after that, we shall comb through:
>>>
>>> https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-shenandoah-jdk8-only-shared
>>> /
>>> hotspot/
>>>
>>> and sort out whatever is no longer needed.
>>>
>>> Right now it's mixed up with aarch64 changes, which is why I'd 
>>> probably push aarch64 to jdk8u first, which should be whatever is:
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk8u/hotspot/
>>>
>>> When this is done, we can take the complete patch and push it at once 
>>> to jdk8u.
>>>
>>> Do you agree?
>>
>> That sounds sensible. AArch64 is much less intrusive to the 8u code base than Shenandoah.
> 
> We are interested in this issue. May I ask if there is any update on this please? 
> 
> Guo Ge
> 

I'm planning to get the AArch64 port into 8u for the 8u272 cycle (so
integration sometime in June, release in October). I want to keep it out
of the way of the JFR integration.

As Roman says, Shenandoah needs to wait until it is in 11u first.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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