RFR - 8142872: Remove support for sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider from 9

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/03/2016 05:04, Kenji Kazumura wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  From the performance point of view, we need still PollSelectorProvider.
> In our research, the score of SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM with PollSelectorProvider
> is higher over a few dozen percent than with DevPollSelectorProvider.
>
> I have discussed with some Solaris OS engineers about
> the difference of poll(2) and /dev/poll.
> They told me that both of them are needed because
> the use-case is different for each other.
>
> So Java programmers also would like to use both
> for the different situations.
>
> Please do not remove PollSelectorProvider from 9
>
>
> -Kenji Kazumura
>
Do you really mean the ancient poll based Selector or do you mean the 
event port based Selector? Yes, we have been shipping 3 SelectorProvider 
implementations on Solaris.

-Alan