Request for Review (s) - 8133023: ParallelGCThreads is not calculated correctly

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 13:31 -0800, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> GC calls VM_Version::calc_parallel_worker_threads() to determine
> the number of GC threads to create.  On Sparc it checks for newer
> Niagara hardware to decide the proper scaling of the GC threads with
> the hardware threads.  calc_parallel_worker_threads() was being called
> before enough information was gathered to determine the Sparc
> hardware.
> 
> Moved the gathering of information needed to earlier in the JVM
> initialization.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8133023/webrev.00/
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133023
> 
  one comment: in vm_version-sparc.hpp, the assert should probably use
VM_Version::unknown_m instead of hardcoded zero.

No need to look at it again.

Looks good.

Thomas