On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:41:36 GMT, Inigo Mediavilla Saiz <d...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> Follow up to https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/19482 that was causing 
>> issues when the PrintMountedVirtualTest.java was
>> running with `JTREG_TEST_THREAD_FACTORY=Virtual` in the loom repo. 
>> 
>> - Fixes issues where the test observes the thread during transitions.
>> - Fixes a potential issue in the test where CountDownLatch.countDown unparks 
>> the main (virtual) thread and the main thread observes the dummy thread is 
>> transition .
>
> Inigo Mediavilla Saiz has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Move the explanation before the if

> I looked at the changes in the latest revision 
> ([9a954ef](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/9a954efe164d9caee31494773c0eecc8ff69223f))
>  and they look okay, it basically skips printing the mounted virtual thread 
> when that virtual thread is interacting with the scheduler or timer 
> mechanism, the so called "temporary transitions" that are needed to ensure 
> the correct identity when submitting tasks to the scheduler, and to avoid 
> deadlock when submitting tasks to the scheduler requires locking. It also 
> changes the test so testing with JTREG_TEST_THREAD_FACTORY=Virtual won't 
> observe the dummy thread in a temporary transition.
> 
> We can improve on this in the loom repo as JavaThread has the thread ID of 
> the mounted virtual thread. Note that the pre-existing "Carrying ..." line 
> has the same issue as we've been discussing here, it just hasn't been noticed 
> perhaps.
> 
> One thing that I think we should do is remove the thread name from the 
> "Mounted ..." line. I initially thought this was a good idea but there is no 
> reference to this when a virtual thread is mounted and interacting with the 
> scheduler. Virtual threads don't have a name by default so it's not a big a 
> loss as you might think. We can of course re-visit this in the future.

Thanks ! I've removed the virtual thread name from the "Mounted .." line in: 
af85b2617c97eeb31ce347f42b019c261bc141f1

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19744#issuecomment-2175909304

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