RFR(L): 8077838: Recent developments for ppc. (original) (raw)

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Thu Apr 23 14:24:28 UTC 2015

On 4/23/15 1:27 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:

Hi Vladimir,

thanks for the review! These methods actually do an atomic update of a memory location, so the name really describes what is happening.

May be I need some PPC education. There are several instructions and branch. Is that some kind of transaction?

Thanks, Vladimir

I'll remove the change to interpreterppc.cpp and runtimeppc.cpp. Best regards, Goetz -----Original Message----- From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Vladimir Kozlov Sent: Donnerstag, 23. April 2015 01:16 To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: RFR(L): 8077838: Recent developments for ppc. Why call methods 'atomic': atomicincptr() and atomicoriint()? Do you really need to change runtimeppc.cpp only to remove empty line? Looks fine otherwise. Vladimir On 4/22/15 2:34 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote: Hi,

this change contains recent changes in the ppc directory mostly made by SAP. It's a ppc-only change. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/8077838-ppc/webrev.01/ - Recognition of Power 8 processors (by Tiago Sturmer Daitx). - Support for more new Power 8 instructions. - Support for transactional memory. This is implemented but not yet tested thoroughly due to limitiations of the OS support. Not enabled. - java.lang.math.*Exact intrinsics - Some C2 optimizations and fixes: * Handling of flag registers. Some instructions would lead to uncompilable methods due to not allocatable register patterns. * Free some integer registers to use them for allocation. Handle compressed oops base as constant. * Unscaled class compression. - Type profiling fixes. Please review this change. Best regards, Goetz.

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