ThreadLocalRandom.nextSecondarySeed() re-initializes TLR's seed

Peter Levart peter.levart at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 08:37:41 UTC 2014


Hi,

I noticed an inconsistency in calling TLR.localInit() method. Everywhere 
it's called conditionaly if thread-local "probe" is zero except in 
TLR.nextSecondarySeed() where it's called if "secondary" seed is zero. 
This re-initializes the "probe" and "seed" even though they might have 
already been initialized. It's not a big deal, because this happens at 
most once per thread, but it would be more consistent to call 
localInit() conditionaly, I think:


diff -r 5b45a5efe417 
src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ThreadLocalRandom.java
--- a/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ThreadLocalRandom.java Tue 
May 20 10:11:23 2014 +0400
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ThreadLocalRandom.java Thu 
Jun 19 10:34:18 2014 +0200
@@ -1034,7 +1034,8 @@
              r ^= r << 5;
}
          else {
- localInit();
+            if (UNSAFE.getInt(t, PROBE) == 0)
+ localInit();
              if ((r = (int)UNSAFE.getLong(t, SEED)) == 0)
                  r = 1; // avoid zero
          }



Regards, Peter




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