Problematic backport to 8u: "Ensure tasks use correct number of workers"

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 10/02/2017 05:23 PM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> Jdk8 workgang implementation is not flexible enough to support our single workgang approach. We may
> have to provide our own implementation (although, should be simple).

Please try to do this. At very minimum, we should backport the asserts and the test, and make sure
we pass it. In this minimum case, we might need to round up the number of concurrent and parallel
threads to make current workgang mechanics work?

Thanks,
-Aleksey