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

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 11/17/2015 07:11 AM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you're right.  Done.

Thanks.

Jon
>
> No need to look at it again.
>
> Looks good.
>
> Thomas
>
>