On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:38:32 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade@openjdk.org> wrote:
…of MAX_PRIORITY-2 during refactoring
Appears in Java 17 for the first time.
During refactoring, the priority was changed from Thread.MAX_PRIORITY - 2 to instead state Thread.MIN_PRIORITY - 2, which results in a negative priority, and is thus set to Thread.NORM_PRIORITY. Thus the Cleaner by default now has threads with priority 5, instead of 8.
The change was done in git revision # 992b50087d2ec8878dfcbbd1820a00b6b6bdf644 and label 8261036 by Claes Redestad
Please change the PR title to "8273541: Cleaner Thread creates with normal priority instead of MAX_PRIORITY - 2" to get it automatically hooked by bots.
Why would jcheck say "This PR contains no changes" @shipilev ? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5439