On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 13:22:03 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> During the review of JDK-8272914 that added hotspot:tier{2,3} groups,
>> @iignatev suggested to create tier4 groups that capture all tests not in
>> tiers{1,2,3}. I have excluded `vmTestbase` and `hotspot:tier4,` because they
>> take 10+ hours on my highly parallel machine. I have also excluded
>> `applications` from `hotspot:tier4`, because they require test dependencies
>> (e.g. jcstress).
>>
>> Sample run:
>>
>>
>> ==============================
>> Test summary
>> ==============================
>> TEST TOTAL PASS FAIL ERROR
>>
>>>> jtreg:test/hotspot/jtreg:tier4 426 425 1 0
>>>> <<
>>>> jtreg:test/jdk:tier4 2891 2885 4 2
>>>> <<
>> jtreg:test/langtools:tier4 0 0 0 0
>>
>> jtreg:test/jaxp:tier4 0 0 0 0
>>
>> ==============================
>>
>> real 64m13.994s
>> user 1462m1.213s
>> sys 39m38.032s
>>
>>
>> There are interesting test failures on my machine, which I would address
>> separately.
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one
> additional commit since the last revision:
>
> Drop applications and fix the comment
Once again, the disconnect between Oracle and OpenJDK test definitions seems to
be the problem for Oracle's side. Rectifying that disconnect might fall under
the scope of this PR, but I have to point out that it is a courtesy of upstream
open-source project to care about proprietary downstream definitions.
More to the point: since `tier4` as "catch-all-the-rest" was Igor's idea, I
assumed that would be in agreement with Oracle's test definitions. Following
this discussion, it seems I assumed wrong. So it puts me in a weird position to
be between two Oracle engineers arguing about proprietary test definitions I
cannot really know about, and have no decision power about. For all I care for
OpenJDK, we might as well model `tier4` after what Oracle does, as to minimize
confusion for Oracle engineers. But then again, I have no idea what Oracle
means by `tier4`. So as the alternative, I can postpone this PR until you folks
have a coherent view on this, or I can just give up on this PR and re-assign
the RFE to Igor, assuming he is willing to work this out.
Tell me what you want me to do here.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5357
