RFR: 8261445: Use memory_order_relaxed for os::random().

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.java.net
Tue Feb 9 22:27:39 UTC 2021


On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:49:12 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> os::random() is used a lot (once for every class) during HotSpot initialization, and it defaults to using a compare-and-swap operation with memory_order_conservative. We don't need that: it should be memory_order_relaxed.

This seems fine to me too.

Thanks,
David

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2484


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