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

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 11/17/2015 04:27 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2015, at 6:44 PM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 11/17/2015 02:31 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 4:12 PM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8133023/webrev.01/
>>> Shouldn’t the assert be at the beginning of VM_Version::initialize, rather than some distance into it.
>>> There are some _features-based predicates being called before that assert on line 63:
>> Yes, that would be good.  What about the guarantee().  Some of the other variables depend on
>> has_v9().
> Does anything before the has_v9() guarantee require v9?  It’s not even slightly obvious to me.
> OTOH, giving up sooner when we’re going to be giving up anyway is probably better.
>
prefetch_copy_interval_in_bytes() and prefetch_scan_interval_in_bytes() 
at least use has_v9().
I'll move the guarantee  up to the top also.

Jon