Ping: RFR: JDK-8205523: Explicit barriers for interpreter

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/27/2018 11:42 AM, Roman Kennke wrote:

> It should be noted that normal loads and stores are already covered
> by the Access API, and we emit the correct read- and write
> barriers. This is about a few places that don't easily fit that
> model and still require barriers. That is monitor enter/exit (need
> WBs anyway) and a few intrinsics, in the interpreter only
> CRC32. This requires an RB on the buffer array. Yeah, it's probably
> OK to emit WB there too. If it's really hot, it'd be compiled by C1
> or C2.

Right, but as you correctly note we'll have exactly the same
discussion about C1, with the same points made.

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