[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Question regarding surface locking

[Roman Kennke]

Hi there,

I see in X11SurfaceData, that we lock and unlock on the global AWT lock.
AFAICS, the purpose of this lock is to prevent race conditions on the
surface data (like: t1 reads, t2 reads, t1 writes back, t2 writes back
-> BUMM). Is it really necessary to lock on a global lock, wouldn't a
lock on the surface do the same job? I'm thinking when you have
animations on several surfaces in parallel (like in the Java2Demo), it
might be more efficient to have a finer grained lock. Or are there other
pitfalls attached here?

/Roman

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