RFR: CODETOOLS-7903021: jcstress: Dining Philosophers problem sample

Mon Sep 20 08:21:02 UTC 2021

On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:57:00 GMT, Michael Mirwaldt <github.com+6693355+mmirwaldt at openjdk.org> wrote:

> While the Dining Philosophers sample would run with 3 actors, I don't think this will work for the next samples following. I am afraid the reader-writer problem will never run with only 4 actors because overhead of the locking protocol destroys all results.

My point is to use the minimum number of actors that still makes the test viable. For Dining Philosophers, it seems three threads are enough. We shall address the reader-writer thread problem, when we come to that.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jcstress/pull/93