RFR: 8305092: Improve Thread.sleep(millis, nanos) for sub-millisecond granularity [v7]
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.org
Wed Apr 19 19:55:38 UTC 2023
> Java API has the `Thread.sleep(millis, nanos)` method exposed to users. The documentation for that method clearly says the precision and accuracy are dependent on the underlying system behavior. However, it always rounds up `nanos` to 1ms when doing the actual sleep. This means users cannot do the micro-second precision sleeps, even when the underlying platform allows it. Sub-millisecond sleeps are useful to build interesting primitives, like the rate limiters that run with >1000 RPS.
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> When faced with this, some users reach for more awkward APIs like `java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos`. The use of that API for sleeps is not in line with its intent, and while it "seems to work", it might have interesting interactions with other uses of `LockSupport`. Additionally, these "sleeps" are no longer visible to monitoring tools as "normal sleeps", e.g. as `Thread.sleep` events. Therefore, it would be prudent to improve current `Thread.sleep(millis, nanos)` for sub-millisecond granularity.
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> Fortunately, the underlying code is almost ready for this, at least on POSIX side. I skipped Windows paths, because its timers are still no good. Note that on both Linux and MacOS timers oversleep by about 50us. I have a few ideas how to improve the accuracy for them, which would be a topic for a separate PR.
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> Additional testing:
> - [x] New regression test
> - [x] New benchmark
> - [x] Linux x86_64 `tier1`
> - [x] Linux AArch64 `tier1`
Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
Adjust test times
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13225/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13225/files/0e05a2f8..8617b5ce
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13225&range=06
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13225&range=05-06
Stats: 4 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 4 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13225.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13225/head:pull/13225
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13225
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