RFR (XS): 8014890 : Reference queues may return more entries than expected

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi all,

On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 15:44 +0400, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 07/01/2013 03:37 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> > On 1/07/2013 8:14 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> >> The same "thou shalt not do multiple volatile reads" applies to 
> >> "(r.queue == NULL) || (r.queue == ENQUEUED)" now.
> > 
> > Doesn't that just reduce to "r.queue != this" ? (The assert suggests
> > so :) )
> 
> Thomas' original patch had this in form of "r.queue != this". I argue it
> is more future-proof to distinguish the concrete cases.

:)

I also thought it was more understandable if the cases were explicitly
enumerated, in addition to the assert.

I changed this in 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8014890/webrev.refactor to that
version now, using a temporary variable that stores r.queue before the
checks to avoid the double volatile reads.

However for me either version is fine, just tell me what you favor.

I am not really happy about bitwise ORing the two comparison results as
it seems to reduce readability at no real gain.

Thanks,
Thomas