RFR: 8355726: LinkedBlockingDeque fixes and improvements [v8]

Viktor Klang vklang at openjdk.org
Wed Jun 11 09:21:34 UTC 2025


On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:03:47 GMT, kabutz <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We logged several bugs on the LinkedBlockingDeque. This aggregates them into a single bug report and PR.
>> 
>> 1. LinkedBlockingDeque does not immediately throw InterruptedException in put/take
>> 
>> The LinkedBlockingDeque does not behave consistently with other concurrency components. If we call putFirst(), putLast(), takeFirst(), or takeLast() with a thread that is interrupted, it does not immediately throw an InterruptedException, the way that ArrayBlockingQueue and LInkedBlockingQueue does, because instead of lockInterruptibly(), we call lock(). It will only throw an InterruptedException if the queue is full (on put) or empty (on take). Since interruptions are frequently used as a shutdown mechanism, this might prevent code from ever shutting down.
>> 
>> 2. LinkedBlockingDeque.clear() should preserve weakly-consistent iterators
>> 
>> LinkedBlockingDeque.clear() should preserve weakly-consistent iterators by linking f.prev and f.next back to f, allowing the iterators to continue from the first or last respectively. This would be consistent with how the other node-based weakly consistent queues LinkedBlockingQueue LinkedTransferQueue, ConcurrentLinkedQueue/Deque work.
>> 
>> The LBD already supports self-linking, since that is done by the unlinkFirst() and unlinkLast() methods, and the iterators and spliterator thus all support self-linking.
>> 
>> This can be fixed very easily by linking both f.prev and f.next back to f.
>> 
>> 3. LinkedBlockingDeque offer() creates nodes even if capacity has been reached
>> 
>> In the JavaDoc of LinkedBlockingDeque, it states: "Linked nodes are dynamically created upon each insertion unless this would bring the deque above capacity." However, in the current implementation, nodes are always created, even if the deque is full. This is because count is non-volatile, and we only check inside the linkFirst/Last() methods whether the queue is full. At this point we have already locked and have created the Node. Instead, the count could be volatile, and we could check before locking.
>> 
>> In the current version, calling offer() on a full LinkedBlockingDeque creates unnecessary objects and contention. Similarly for poll() and peek(), we could exit prior to locking by checking the count field.
>> 
>> 4. LinkedBlockingDeque allows us to overflow size with addAll()
>> 
>> In LinkedBlockingDeque.addAll() we first build up the chain of nodes and then add that chain in bulk to the existing nodes. We count the nodes in "int n" and then whilst hol...
>
> kabutz has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Removed sizes from LBD constructors - not necessary
>  - More optimizing volatile reads

test/jdk/java/util/concurrent/tck/LinkedBlockingDequeTest.java line 1904:

> 1902:                     fail("Expected InterruptedException in putFirst()");
> 1903:                 } catch (InterruptedException expected) {
> 1904:                     // good that's what we want

@kabutz I think it makes sense to verify that throwing the exception also clears the interrupt.

Suggestion:

                    // good that's what we want
                    assertFalse(Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted());

test/jdk/java/util/concurrent/tck/LinkedBlockingDequeTest.java line 1912:

> 1910:                     fail("Expected InterruptedException in putLast()");
> 1911:                 } catch (InterruptedException expected) {
> 1912:                     // good that's what we want

Suggestion:

                    // good that's what we want
                    assertFalse(Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted());

test/jdk/java/util/concurrent/tck/LinkedBlockingDequeTest.java line 1921:

> 1919:                     fail("Expected InterruptedException in takeFirst()");
> 1920:                 } catch (InterruptedException expected) {
> 1921:                     // good that's what we want

Suggestion:

                    // good that's what we want
                    assertFalse(Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted());

test/jdk/java/util/concurrent/tck/LinkedBlockingDequeTest.java line 1930:

> 1928:                     fail("Expected InterruptedException in takeLast()");
> 1929:                 } catch (InterruptedException expected) {
> 1930:                     // good that's what we want

Suggestion:

                    // good that's what we want
                    assertFalse(Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted());

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24925#discussion_r2139634311
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24925#discussion_r2139636727
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24925#discussion_r2139637138
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24925#discussion_r2139637525


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