On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:52:57 GMT, Claes Redestad <redes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Many OpenJDK micros use `@Fork(jvmArgs/-Append/-Prepend)` to add JVM > reasonable or necessary flags, but when deploying and running micros we often > want to add or replace flags to tune to the machine, test different GCs, etc. > The inconsistent use of the different `jvmArgs` options make it error prone, > and we've had a few recent cases where we've not been testing with the > expected set of flags. > > This PR suggests using `jvmArgs` consistently. I think this aligns with the > intuition that when you use `jvmArgsAppend/-Prepend` intent is to add to a > set of existing flags, while if you supply `jvmArgs` intent is "run with > these and nothing else". Perhaps there are other opinions/preferences, and I > don't feel strongly about which to consolidate to as long as we do so > consistently. One argument could be made to consolidate on `jvmArgsAppend` > since that one is (likely accidentally) the current most popular (143 > compared to 59 `jvmArgsPrepend` and 18 `jvmArgs`). Thanks for reviewing. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21683#issuecomment-2442806508
