RFR: jsr166 jdk9 integration wave 2

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 18 Nov 2015, at 03:46, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com <mailto:paul.sandoz at oracle.com>> wrote:
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> For the jtregTest updates, if you have any excess energy remaining, you might want to consider adding the jtreg randomness tag (i cannot recall its exact name) to the test metadata.
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> Most of the jtreg tests deliberately include non-determinism from use of multiple threads, and there is no @key nondeterminstic tag, and adding randomness tags to the tests that additionally invoke a prng doesn't really seem useful.  Flakes R Us!
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I am sure Joe, CC’ed will have an opinion on this. IIUC correct the existing randomness tag actually serves a simialr purpose as your proposed nondeterminstic tag.


> I support adding @key nondeterministic, and allowing that a tag to apply to an entire tree (java.util.concurrent).  Do we have any tests dependent on the phase of the moon?

Dunno :-) perhaps every one in a while a machine running tests is effected by neutrinos and causes a one off error?

Paul.