On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 10:04:36 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change drops the adjustments to the virtual thread scheduler's target 
> parallelism when virtual threads do file operations on files that are opened 
> for buffered I/O. These operations are usually just too short to have any 
> benefit and may have a negative benefit when reading/writing a small number 
> of bytes. There is no change for read/write operations on files opened for 
> direct I/O or when writing to files that are opened with options for 
> synchronized I/O file integrity (O_SYNC/O_DSYNC and equivalents). Sergery 
> Kuksenko is polishing benchmarks that includes this area, this is for a 
> future PR.
> 
> In addition, the blocker mechanism is updated to handle reentrancy as can 
> happen if debugging code is added to ForkJoinPool, if there is preemption 
> when attempting to compensate, or potentially forced preemption in the 
> future. This part is a pre-requisite to the changes to better support object 
> monitor there are more places where preemption is possible and this quickly 
> leads to unbalanced begin/end.
> 
> The changes have been baking in the loom repo for several months.

The `CarrierThread` changes look to be the most complicated here but I don't 
see any problems. Otherwise, I don't have any comments aside from some that 
@jaikiran already made hence not worth repeating.

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Marked as reviewed by bpb (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18598#pullrequestreview-1990512527

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