(11) RFR (XS): 8205966: [testbug] New Nestmates JDI test times out with Xcomp on sparc

[Mikael Vidstedt]

Looks good. Nice speedup!

Cheers,
Mikael


> On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:21 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205966
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8205966/webrev/
> 
> One of the @run variants was taking around 15x longer to execute. That variant uses the InMemoryJavaCompiler which involves a lot of classes and code execution. The test was enabling method entry event generation for all of main, resulting in the massive slowdown.
> 
> The fix is to add a new breakpoint() function that gets called after the in-memory compilation setup is done, and we initially run the test to that point before enabling the events.
> 
> The problem @run now only takes 2x the other tests and so should avoid the timeouts.
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier4 solaris-sparc
>         mach5 tier 1-3
> 
> Thanks,
> David