[15] RFR 8236878: Use atomic instruction to update StringDedupTable's entries and entries_removed counters

[Zhengyu Gu]

On 1/16/20 3:51 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 1/15/20 10:29 PM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>> Updated webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/JDK-8236878/webrev.01/index.html
> 
> OK, thanks for explaining. I guess that makes sense.
> 
> This comment is outdated then:
>     480   // Delayed update to avoid contention on the table lock
> 
> I'd suggest to rewrite it to:
>    // Do atomic update here instead of taking StringDedupTable_lock. This allows concurrent
>    // cleanup when multiple workers are cleaning up the table, while the mutators are blocked
>    // on StringDedupTable_lock.

Updated as you suggested and pushed.


Thanks,

-Zhengyu

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> ...or some such.
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