Memory barrier generators

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Reading Joseph Albahari's threading tutorial, the following are mentioned as generators of memory barriers:

  • C#'s lock statement (Monitor.Enter/Monitor.Exit)
  • All methods on the Interlocked class
  • Asynchronous callbacks that use the thread pool — these include asynchronous delegates, APM callbacks, and Task continuations
  • Setting and waiting on a signaling construct
  • Anything that relies on signaling, such as starting or waiting on a Task

In addition, Hans Passant and Brian Gideon added the following (assuming none of which already fits into one of the previous categories):

  • Starting or waking up a thread
  • Context switch
  • Thread.Sleep()

I was wondering if this list was complete (if a complete list could even be practically made)

EDIT additions suggested:

  • Volatile (reading implies an acquire fence, writing implies a release fence)
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