RFR: 8350464: The flags to set the native priority for the VMThread and Java threads need a broader range

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:25:44 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> See JBS for background details, but basically -1 -> 127 is inappropriate and the priority range should be the full int_min - int_max
> 
> Testing:
>  - tiers 1-3 sanity testing
> 
> Thanks

A release note may be useful here. There are a lot of blog articles out there about this topic. I guess this is not a backward compatibility problem, since values lower than -1 have never been accepted by the JVM, right?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23722#issuecomment-2673974853