RFR (XS): 8188877: Improper synchronization in offer_termination

[Andrew Haley]

On 28/11/17 21:11, White, Derek wrote:
> Offer-termination just has a simple for-loop that delays some number of cycles. As high as 4k iterations * 140 cycles (per SpinPause() on x86), could be 573,000 cycles or so. For this case, especially where the termination test is a simple load, I think we should test _offered_termination in the spin-wait. This should have low overhead on the spinning thread and impose no impact on other threads.

Please point to the exact lines of code you're talking about.

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Andrew Haley
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