ForkJoin refresh

Now committed in jsr166 are extensions of the AQS refresh of last fall
to also cover ForkJoin; among other things removing reliance on builtin
monitors  The extra few months were mainly a result of noticing that the
initial way I did this increased performance differences across garbage
collectors. These are now reduced (not increased), but still worth
noting: FJ programs are relatively sensitive to GC choice because they
entail work-stealing duels between program and collector. On hotspot,
usually the best throughput for divide-and-conquer style usages
(including parallelStreams) is with -XX:+UseParallelGC. For unstructured
computations with lots of little tasks (for example little
CompletableFutures), UseShenandoahGC (and/or if needing more than 32GB
heap, UseZGC) are often better choices.  UseParallelGC meshes well with
highly generational structured parallelism, but is prone to
card-mark-contention with small tasks (even with -XX:+UseCondCardMark)
and long pauses. The default UseG1GC tends to be somewhere in the
middle. Also, on linux, using -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages seems to
always be a good idea for programs using FJ. (Other switches seem to
have less consistent positive effects.)

These days, it is almost impossible to quantify exactly how much better
performance is, but it's likely that your usages are faster. For
example, about half of the programs in the recent Renaissance Suite
(https://renaissance.dev/) somehow use FJ, and most of these have
improved scores on most machines, most JVMs (including OpenJ9 and
Graal), most collectors, most phases of the moon....

It would be great to get feedback from other usages before integrating
into OpenJDK. As usual, you can try it with any JDK11+ JVM by grabbing
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrent/dist/jsr166.jar and running "java
--patch-module java.base="$DIR/jsr166.jar", where DIR is the full file
prefix. (Although beware that using --patch-module slows down startup,
and occasionally entire test runs. For other options, see
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/index.html).

-Doug

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