RFR(S): 8229422: Taskqueue: Outdated selection of weak memory model platforms
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Jan 14 15:05:43 UTC 2020
On 1/14/20 3:00 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
Ah, I found the answer in another thread:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2013-March/008853.html
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