RFR (S): 8189355: Cleanup of BarrierSet barrier functions
Kim Barrett
kim.barrett at oracle.com
Wed Oct 18 00:29:26 UTC 2017
> On Oct 17, 2017, at 6:27 AM, Erik Österlund <erik.osterlund at oracle.com> wrote:
Not a review yet; still looking at it.
> There is also an enum called Flags not referenced from anywhere.
See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072956.
I’m okay with removing it.
> I would also like to get rid of devirtualize_reference_writes() which devirtualizes calls to the post-write barrier for card marking specifically by loading and comparing the type of barrier set. I have run a bunch of benchmarks and this optimization did not seem to provide any benefit.
Yay!
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