On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 10:21:23 GMT, Soumadipta Roy <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 8315770: serviceability/sa/TestJmapCoreMetaspace.java should run with 
>> -XX:-VerifyDependencies
>> 
>> serviceability/sa/TestJmapCoreMetaspace.java runs in hotspot:tier2, and 
>> takes about 330 seconds out of 670 seconds of the entire run on x86_64 
>> fastdebug. The tier2 completion usually waits on it. Profiling shows we are 
>> spending time during classloading, checking dependencies. Since we load lots 
>> of classes, we do it many times, and each time the cost grows linearly to 
>> the number of classes. Some other tests that target metaspace explicitly 
>> disable `VerifyDependencies` to avoid this.
>> 
>> The commit includes adding "-XX:-VerifyDependencies" along with 
>> "-XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions" in TestJmapCore.java to make sure that 
>> release builds work with the test, as VerifyDependencies is a develop option 
>> and not available in release builds. The changes in the commit are resulting 
>> in considerable improvement for the test in fastdebug mode as can be seen 
>> below:
>> 
>> * before: **130.41s user 14.11s system 118% cpu 2:01.85 total**
>> * after: **27.52s user 13.64s system 213% cpu 19.249 total**
>
> Soumadipta Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Changing the order of flags to maintain consistency.

Marked as reviewed by kevinw (Committer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15631#pullrequestreview-1617308322

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