RFR (S) CR 8014886: @Contended fields can overrun oop maps

[Doug Lea]

On 05/23/2013 02:07 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:

>> There is no @Contended classes/fields in JDK (yet). We are waiting for
>> this VM code to stabilize before committing to @Contended in the library.
>>

This state of affairs will change soon (we hope). A bunch of
uses in updated java.util.concurrent classes will be integrated
into jdk8/tl. None of these usages are known to hit the existing
bugs though.

-Doug