Biased locking Obsoletion

[Volker Simonis]

Sounds good!

Thanks Patricio.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:15 AM Patricio Chilano
<patricio.chilano.mateo at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thank you for all the feedback. We've had some internal VM discussions
> here at Oracle, and there is a general consensus that leaving the
> biased-locking code in a while longer will not adversely affect any of
> the project work that is in the pipeline for JDK 16 and 17. While it is
> essential for the Valhalla project that the biased-locking code is
> removed, there is no immediate urgency in doing so. Further, there is a
> general consensus that giving more time for feedback on any impacts from
> biased-locking being disabled is a good idea and will allow time for any
> needed mitigations. So we will defer the obsoletion of the
> biased-locking code to JDK 18 (JDK-8256253), with the expectation that
> it will be done as soon as JDK 18 forks next June/July (JDK-8256425).
>
> Thanks again,
> Patricio