Synchronization
If the order of execution of the invocations of a local workgroup and all of the local workgroups that make up the global workgroup are not defined, the operations that an invocation performs can occur out of order with respect to other invocations. If no communication between the invocations is required and they can all run completely independently of each other, then this likely isn’t going to be an issue. However, if the invocations need to communicate with each other either through images and buffers or through shared variables, then it may be necessary to synchronize their operations with each other.
There are two types of synchronization commands. The first is an execution barrier, which is invoked using the barrier() function. ...
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