JDK-8006593 : Initialization bottleneck in Maps due to use of j.u.Random
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util:collections
  • Affected Version: 7u6
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2013-01-18
  • Updated: 2013-08-27
  • Resolved: 2013-03-12
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JDK 7
7u40 b18Fixed
Description
The alternative hashing introduced in 7u6 includes a feature to randomize the layout of individual map instances. This is accomplished by generating a random mask value per hash map. The initialization of this field is introduces a bottleneck because it uses a shared random number generator, java.util.Random
Comments
I've added 8-na on the assumption that nothing needs to be forward-ported (it's all mute with Brent work on HashMap anyway).
16-05-2013
Updated webrev. Hashtable implementation is similar to HashMap
22-02-2013
The solution used is to use a ThreadLocalRandom instead of a shared Random instance. The one concern I have with this approach is that we have no control over seeding for TLR and that this may be somehow exploitable. I've also included a test patch which reverts Hashtable back to it's original pre-7u6 state. We can debate whether to include this as part of the update for 7u6. If we opt not to revert Hashtable then the changes are similar to what was done for HashMap. LinkedHashMap, WeakHashMap and ConcurrentHashMap are unchanged by this patch but will benefit from the removal of the bottleneck in un.misc.Hashing.randomHashSeed()
09-02-2013
Initial suggestion it to replace use of java.util.Random SEED_MAKER in sun.misc.Hashing.Holder with ThreadLocalRandom
09-02-2013
See original report on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14010906/given-that-hashmaps-in-jdk1-6-and-above-cause-problems-with-multi-threading-how and original discussion on corelibs-dev: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-January/013329.html
18-01-2013