On 10/10/2016 10:14 AM, Roman Kennke wrote: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/lockbarriers/webrev.00/ I agree, this strikes right at the core where mark word is modified, not spread all around. Minor nit: *) I think jccb(...) should be replaced with jcc(..., true // maybe_short) Thanks, -Aleksey