mfence on i686 with volatile?

[Tim Bell]

David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Denis,
> 
> Is this with -client or -server ?

Also - are you running your tests on a single-CPU machine?  I recall HotSpot
detects that and will elide any n-way synchronization measures if so...

> For x86 we should see a StoreLoad barrier after the assignment to v2:
> 
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jmm/cookbook.html
> 
> For -server printOptoAssembly shows our "mfence" replacement a lock:addl 
> (which is the implementation of membar-volatile().
> 
> [ Got to go get hsdis myself to test printAssembly directly ]

HTH-

Tim