> Please review this fix for a race in KeepAliveCache.
> 
> The sweeper thread (`KeepAliveCache.run()`) terminates when the cache is 
> empty. The check for empty cache was performed  without holding the cache 
> lock. As a result, there was a small window of time where a new connection 
> could be added to the cache while the sweeper thread was stopping. The added 
> connection would then be removed from cache without closing when a new 
> sweeper thread was started.
> 
> As an additional observation, the check for empty cache was performed after 
> sweeping. The cache could be empty because all connections were closed, or 
> because all connections were busy. In the latter case, a new thread was 
> created soon after the old one terminated.
> 
> This patch addresses both these issues. The sweeper thread makes the decision 
> to terminate while holding the lock, and other threads are aware of that when 
> they acquire the lock. Also, the sweeper thread only terminates if the cache 
> is empty AND there was no cache activity in the last `LIFETIME` (5 seconds).
> 
> Tier1-3 clean. No new tests, the issue was very hard to reproduce without 
> adding delays in production code..

Daniel Jeliński has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Remove unnecessary lock

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12676/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12676/files/de6f3299..bb5596cb

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=12676&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=12676&range=00-01

  Stats: 62 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 29 del; 28 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12676.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/12676/head:pull/12676

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12676

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