RFR: 8308310: HttpClient: Avoid logging or locking from within synchronized blocks [v9]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Wed, 24 May 2023 11:39:26 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please find here a change that revisits usage of monitors in the HttpClient.
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>> With Virtual Threads now part of the platform it should be possible to pass a newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor to the HttpClient. Logging, when enabled, and when called from a synchronized block, can cause the carrier thread to get pinned in case of contention when printing through the underlying PrintStream.
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>> This change aims at avoiding situations where the carrier threads might get pinned.
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> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Review feedback

The tests that have been selectively changed to use virtual threads for the HttpClient (and have been  set with `-Djdk.tracePinnedThreads=full`), I'm guessing were selected based on some of the failures that were noticed when virtual threads were used?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14038#issuecomment-1560975920