RFC: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JMC-6554

[Mario Torre]

On 20/08/2019 11:12, Marcus Hirt wrote:
> I'd like to avoid fragmentation. In the best case scenario, any
> downstream build of JMC would work with most JVMs. Oracle invented JFR
> and JMC and donated it all to the community. I think it's fair to
> continue to make sure JMC keeps working with the early versions of
> Oracle's work, and that we avoid causing unnecessary grief.

Of course, I just want to be sure it doesn't get forgotten.

> I agree that this work should be prioritized, and that one of the goals
> of 7.1.0 should be to work well with the backport. I've raised the
> priority of this bug to P2, and asked Oracle to own it. I'll talk to
> Guru about the earliest possible iteration when this work can be targeted.

Sure.

Cheers,
Mario

> Kind regards,
> Marcus
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:41 AM Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com
> <mailto:neugens at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     We would need some acknowledgement that this will be done in some
>     timing fashion however, I would like to avoid that we ship this
>     patch downstream only for the need to support the closed 7.
> 
>     In general I think this whole code shouldn’t be part of upstream
>     JMC, you mentioned some reason for this, can you explain better the
>     issue and why is it needed?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Mario 
> 
>     On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com
>     <mailto:marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Someone from Oracle should rework this patch into something that
>         works properly with Oracle JDK 7 to 10. Guru, can someone from
>         the Oracle JMC team own JMC-6554.
> 
>         Kind regards,
>         Marcus
> 
>         On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:49 AM Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com
>         <mailto:neugens at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Hi!
> 
>             I would like to push the patch Aleksey proposed on JMC-6554.
> 
>             I understand there's some concern that this may not be
>             incompatible with
>             Oracle proprietary builds, but I have no way to test this,
>             nevertheless,
>             going forward OpenJDK 8 (which is still the reference
>             implementation)
>             will likely have JFR and JMC should work with it, possibly
>             by 7.1 already.
> 
>             Can someone from Oracle test the patch and give some feedback?
> 
>             Cheers,
>             Mario
>             -- 
>             Mario Torre
>             Associate Manager, Software Engineering
>             Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com>
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> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Mario Torre
>     Associate Manager, Software Engineering
>     Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com><br>9704 A60C B4BE A8B8
>     0F30  9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898
> 


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Mario Torre
Associate Manager, Software Engineering
Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com>
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