RFR: 8079315: UseCondCardMark broken in conjunction with CMS precleaning

[Erik Österlund]

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately it looks like the global_fence performance and portability
discussion led the thread to a halt.

I don¹t think a correctness patch should be held back by a discussion
about which platforms can elide the correctness fix and potentially
experience better performance. So I think we should just go for the
fencing solution for now, and discuss global_fence later if anyone is
interested and think it¹s worth doing and on which platforms it makes
sense for etc.

The suggestion with fences look good from my point of view. But I¹m only
an author.

Cheers,
/Erik

Den 02/06/15 09:44 skrev Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:

>Have we come to a complete standstill?
>
>We have a number of AArch64 patches, needed for correctness, which are
>blocked on this.  But part of the simple AArch64 fix, which would be a
>StoreLoad barrier, requires a change to shared code.  I could submit
>something #ifdef AARCH64, which probably wouldn't be popular.
>
>Andrew.
>
>