RFR(S) 8205921: Optimizing best-of-2 work stealing queue selection

[Zhengyu Gu]

On 07/05/2018 04:12 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/05/2018 03:33 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>>> On Jul 5, 2018, at 3:16 PM, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> […]
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8205921/webrev.02/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Zhengyu
>>> I think that makes the change accurately reflect the paper.
>>> Just one minor nit: extraneous whitespace in “0 )”:
>>>   258     } else if (sz1 > 0 ) {
>> I will fix it before push.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> -Zhengyu
> 
> In case there’s any confusion, that wasn’t a “Looks good.  Reviewed.”  There’s still the
> padding and where to put the last steal queue discussions to be resolved.
> 

Got it.

I am fine with placing last steal queue inside stealing thread's queue. 
However, I think padding fields is beyond this RFE, we should file new 
one to address this issue.

Thanks,

-Zhengyu