RFR: 8273541: Cleaner Thread creates with normal priority instead of MAX_PRIORITY - 2

[David Holmes]

On 11/09/2021 5:24 am, kabutz wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:08:05 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>>> This looks good. @cl4es might want to confirm that change was not intentional.
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>> Completely unintentional, and perplexing since it's not a simple copy-paste error..
> 
> The thread priorities in Java are the wrong way round, (high is 10, low is 1) so I was not surprised by this mistake.

They are not "the wrong way around" they followed Solaris Global 
Dispatch Priorities (and Windows priorities for that matter). It makes a 
lot more sense than systems where a "higher priority" means a lower 
numerical priority value IMO.

:)

Cheers,
David


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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5439
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