jsr166 is sort-of an upstream project of openjdk and has its own mailing list. It looks like forkjoin changes were discussed here: https://markmail.org/thread/ezvo7xf3xh6q2u2c (and yeah, everyone has trouble understanding forkjoin implementation)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 2:10 PM Chris Dennis <chris.w.den...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Apologies for dredging up an older mail thread. I lurk and follow along > with various JDK development threads and this 166 integration change jumped > out at me. I have to confess although I understood the intent of the change > and the explanation in the comments, like David I found it very difficult > to navigate the actual changeset itself. I was hoping that there would be > continued discussion that I could follow along with and that this would > help me too. I was surprised therefore when I didn’t see any further > discussion, and then noticed that the change had actually been committed ( > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/d04f72c354e9). Was there some > further discussion on another list/thread that I missed that someone could > direct me to? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > On Feb 10, 2019, at 10:41 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > > 8215363: needless signals in ForkJoinPool > > https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/jsr166-integration/forkjoin-signals/index.html > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215363 > > > Can't comment - the code is unfathomable. > > >
