On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:22:54 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Java API has the `Thread.sleep(millis, nanos)` method exposed to users. The >> documentation for that method clearly says the precision and accuracy are >> dependent on the underlying system behavior. However, it always rounds up >> `nanos` to 1ms when doing the actual sleep. This means users cannot do the >> micro-second precision sleeps, even when the underlying platform allows it. >> Sub-millisecond sleeps are useful to build interesting primitives, like the >> rate limiters that run with >1000 RPS. >> >> When faced with this, some users reach for more awkward APIs like >> `java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos`. The use of that API for >> sleeps is not in line with its intent, and while it "seems to work", it >> might have interesting interactions with other uses of `LockSupport`. >> Additionally, these "sleeps" are no longer visible to monitoring tools as >> "normal sleeps", e.g. as `Thread.sleep` events. Therefore, it would be >> prudent to improve current `Thread.sleep(millis, nanos)` for sub-millisecond >> granularity. >> >> Fortunately, the underlying code is almost ready for this, at least on POSIX >> side. I skipped Windows paths, because its timers are still no good. Note >> that on both Linux and MacOS timers oversleep by about 50us. I have a few >> ideas how to improve the accuracy for them, which would be a topic for a >> separate PR. >> >> Additional testing: >> - [x] New regression test >> - [x] New benchmark >> - [x] Linux x86_64 `tier1` >> - [x] Linux AArch64 `tier1` > > Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a > merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 26 commits: > > - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-83050920-thread-sleep-subms > - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-83050920-thread-sleep-subms > - Fix Amazon copyright > - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-83050920-thread-sleep-subms > - Drop nanos_to_nanos_bounded > - Handle overflows > - More review comments > - Adjust test times > - Windows again > - Windows fixes: align(...) is only for power-of-two alignments > - ... and 16 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/35e7bc21...da8f0f8c Nothing further from me. Thanks. ------------- Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13225#pullrequestreview-1403054308
