On Thu, 3 Sep 2026 20:10:05 GMT, Mat Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> @macarte Is it reansonable to add a regression test? Add a test execution >>> run in Starvation that runs with -UseLSE and requires the uarch to be >>> Aarch64? 🤔 /cc @AlanBateman >> >> Totally reasonable, I did start writing a test, I should have time shortly >> to relook at that > >> @macarte Converting the failing test to use the test infrastructure to run >> it with -UseLSE and requiring an aarch64 uarch seems rather tractable. >> @johan-sjolen, wdyt? > > The problem is that while that test fails 100% on Windows ARM64, it only > fails on Linux less than 5% of the time and then only on certain machines > (large number of cores) @macarte Personally I see it as this: If that's the best we can do, then it's the best we can do. I'd rather have a test case that has a very decent chance at catching a regression than no test at all. (The test will run in a lot of CI builds over time so it will statistically fail sooner rather than later) ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31465#issuecomment-5531729848
