Project Loom VirtualThreads hang

[Robert Engels]

Alan,

I tested with JDK 20 and both the VThreadTest and SpinTest complete successfully using Thread.yield!

Surprisingly, it is slower than using LockSupport.parkNanos(1) - 14 secs vs 7 secs  I am not sure this makes sense - as conceptually a thread yield should be at least as efficient as a 0 time sleep - and probably more efficient.  

> On Dec 28, 2022, at 6:51 AM, Robert Engels <rengels at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Alex,
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> You write:
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>> I won't go into detail, but the producers not synchronizing between themselves leads to hangs.
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> Can you explain? Im fairly certain the producers do valid synchronization. As I said, using native threads the code runs to completion fine  
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> Now that I understand the issue I was able to reproduce the issue very simply without any queues. See SpinTest posted to the project. The “starver” thread fails to make any progress - this should not be possible is Thread.yield() was fair. 
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>> On Dec 27, 2022, at 11:15 PM, Alex Otenko <oleksandr.otenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I won't go into detail, but the producers not synchronizing between themselves leads to hangs.