On Fri, 10 May 2024 08:08:05 GMT, Viktor Klang <vkl...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This set of changes address causes of poor utilization with small numbers of >> cores due to overly aggressive contention avoidance. A number of further >> adjustments were needed to still avoid most contention effects in >> deployments with large numbers of cores > > src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.java line 1432: > >> 1430: final void topLevelExec(ForkJoinTask<?> task, WorkQueue src, >> 1431: int srcBase, int cfg) { >> 1432: if (task != null && src != null) { > > @DougLea Is this ever invoked with a null-task and a null-queue? 🤔 No. This is one of many hoisted null checks that help compilers avoid throwing null pointer exceptions where we don't want them. Usually I mark these with " // always true", which I'll add here. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19131#discussion_r1596655269