On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 14:46:48 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The proposed updates for JDK 20 are:
>>
>> - ForkJoinPool.externalSubmit
>> - ForkJoinWorkerThread.getQueuedTaskCount
>>
>> These methods will be used to improve the Thread.yield implementation for
>> virtual threads. The range of alternatives explored include not exposing an
>> API and protected methods such as "offerSubmission". The class description
>> speaks of "external clients" and "submissions from non-ForkJoinTask
>> clients", hence the proposed naming and javadoc text.
>
> Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains six additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Expand test
> - Adjust wording to make it clear that the number of tasks is non-negative
> - Merge
> - Improve javadoc
> - Merge
> - Initial commit
src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.java line 2920:
> 2918: * @since 20
> 2919: */
> 2920: public <T> ForkJoinTask<T> externalSubmit(ForkJoinTask<T> task) {
@AlanBateman Does it make sense to check the nullness of the `task` before
going into the storeStoreFence etc?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11319
