RFR: 8338383: Implement JEP 491: Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:23:50 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This last sentence has interesting consequences for user-defined schedulers. Would it make sense to throw an exception if a carrier thread is holding a monitor while mounting a virtual thread? Doing that would also have the advantage of making some kinds of deadlock impossible.

There's nothing exposed today to allow custom schedulers. The experiments/explorations going on right now have to be careful to not hold any locks. Throwing if holding a monitor is an option but only it would need to be backed by spec and would also shine light on the issue of j.u.concurrent locks as a carrier might independently hold a lock there too.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21565#issuecomment-2431600434