RFR(S): 8229422: Taskqueue: Outdated selection of weak memory model platforms

Tue Jan 14 15:00:42 UTC 2020

On 8/15/19 4:49 PM, Derek White wrote:
> However, setting CPU_MULTI_COPY_ATOMIC for AArch64 would result in changing behavior (removing fence in taskqueue) that should be looked at and tested by the aarch64 folks, so if Andrew Haley agrees, I suggest deferring changing this AArch64 behavior to a separate issue.

Well, yes. What i don't understand is what any of this has to do with
multi-copy atomicity. The fence is needed for _age.get() on all machines
with relaxed memory consitency, AFAICS.

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