Hi, Please review fixes by Doug to For/Join to improve thread throttling (e.g. for nested parallel streams). This fix resulted in a lot of internal refactoring and clean up.
In addition a new system property was added "java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.maximumSpares" (which i suspect will only very rarely be used), so a CCC will be required: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2014-July/012838.html * <li>{@code java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.maximumSpares} * - the maximum number of allowed extra threads to maintain target * parallelism (default 256). https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8056248 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8056248-fj-thread-throttling/webrev/ -- Once this review is complete i think we should also backport to 8u40, and likewise for the CompletableFuture updates (which i forgot to mention in a previously related email). Both these updates have been soaking in the 166 repo for a month or two. No related test failures were reported for a JPRT run with both patches. Paul.
