RFR for JDK-8031374: java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentQueues/OfferRemoveLoops.java fails Intermittently

Tristan Yan tristan.yan at oracle.com
Sun Feb 23 09:40:24 UTC 2014


Hi All
Could you please help to review fix for JDK-803174.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tyan/JDK-8031374/webrev.00/

Description:
There are a couple of code change for this code.
1. Original code has used known problematic Thread.stop. Which could cause ThreadDeath as all we know. I change it to a customized stopThread method.
2. Test failed in windows, I analyze the failure by changing Thread.yield() in remover thread to Thread.sleep(50). This is a simulation for slow machine. Which shows exact same failures as we can see in bug description. By adding more debug info, we can see although we tried to give up CPU by using Thread.yield().(I have tried to use Thread.sleep(1L) as well, the result is same), there is no guarantee that os will pick up a new thread to execute. In Windows, this is more obvious. Because the execution is slow. even when the timeout happens, offer thread and remove thread won’t have chance to get the point that i % 1024 == 0. This will cause the failure like we see in the log. My fix here is when the timeout happens, but i is still less than 1024. Stop offer thread and remover thread right away instead letting them continuously wait the point to i == 1024.
3. I replace Thread.yield to Thread.sleep(0L). I saw a couple of discussion that Thread.yield is not required to give up CPU.

Thank you
Tristan 


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