Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:53:35 -0700
6973570: OrderAccess::storestore() scales poorly on multi-socket x64 and sparc: cache-line ping-ponging
Summary: volatile store to static variable removed in favour of a volatile store to stack to avoid excessive cache coherency traffic; verified that the volatile store is not elided by any of our current compilers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dice, jcoomes, kvn
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25 # include "incls/_precompiled.incl"
26 # include "incls/_orderAccess.cpp.incl"
28 void OrderAccess::StubRoutines_fence() {
29 // Use a stub if it exists. It may not exist during bootstrap so do
30 // nothing in that case but assert if no fence code exists after threads have been created
31 void (*func)() = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(void (*)(), StubRoutines::fence_entry());
33 if (func != NULL) {
34 (*func)();
35 return;
36 }
37 assert(Threads::number_of_threads() == 0, "for bootstrap only");
38 }