RFR: 8322732: ForkJoinPool may underutilize cores in async mode

[Viktor Klang]

On Tue, 7 May 2024 22:50:18 GMT, Doug Lea <dl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This set of changes address causes of poor utilization with small numbers of cores due to overly aggressive contention avoidance. A number of further adjustments were needed to still avoid most contention effects in deployments with large numbers of cores

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.java line 2167:

> 2165:             }
> 2166:         }
> 2167:         return stat;

@DougLea Since `stat` is a local, and is only written to once per branch it might make sense to just return from each of the branches?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19131#discussion_r1596448632