RFR 8080623 CPU overhead in FJ due to spinning in awaitWork (original) (raw)

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Wed May 20 13:29:58 UTC 2015


On 05/20/2015 09:19 AM, David Holmes wrote:

Not sure there was much context to begin with :-) best to look at the implementation: a spin value, initialized to SPINS, is (if > 0) decremented if the next value from a PRNG (Marsaglia-like) is non-negative. Not sure I grok why we would randomize the spin but ...

To better spread out delays to reduce future contention. It's analogous to randomized back-offs.

-Doug



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