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A similar mechanism, called bulk rebiasing, optimizes situations in which objects of a class are locked and unlocked by different threads but never concurrently. It invalidates the bias of all instances of a class without disabling biased locking. An epoch value in the class acts as a timestamp that indicates the validity of the bias. This value is copied into the header word upon object allocation. Bulk rebiasing can then efficiently be implemented as an increment of the epoch in the appropriate class. The next time an instance of this class is going to be locked, the code detects a different value in the header word and rebiases the object towards the current thread.
Source Code Hints
Synchronization affects multiple parts of the JVM: The structure of the object header is defined in the classes oopDesc and markOopDesc, the code for thin locks is integrated in the interpreter and compilers, and the class ObjectMonitor represents inflated locks. Biased locking is centralized in the class BiasedLocking. It can be enabled via the flag -XX:+UseBiasedLocking and disabled via -XX:-UseBiasedLocking. It is enabled by default for Java 6 and Java 7, but activated only some seconds after the application startup. Therefore, beware of short-running micro-benchmarks. If necessary, turn off the delay using the flag -XX:BiasedLockingStartupDelay=0.
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