RFR: 8247213: G1: Reduce usage of volatile in favour of Atomic operations

[David Holmes]

Hi Leo,

On 10/06/2020 11:02 pm, Leo Korinth wrote:
> Hi, I have created a RFR in the hotspot-gc-dev mailing list that mostly 
> changes stuff in G1. However I am also doing changes in atomic.hpp 
> (mostly adding an AtomicValue<> class) so there might be interest 
> outside gc. If you have interest, please follow that thread.

If you are changing atomic.hpp then please cross-post to 
hotspot-runtime-dev. Or even cross-post here on hotspot-dev as there 
should be a broad consensus on how to handle this in the VM.

Thanks,
David

> Thanks,
> Leo