diff --git a/offload/plugins-nextgen/amdgpu/src/rtl.cpp b/offload/plugins-nextgen/amdgpu/src/rtl.cpp
index 796182075ff3d..eab0fda9ff0d0 100644
--- a/offload/plugins-nextgen/amdgpu/src/rtl.cpp
+++ b/offload/plugins-nextgen/amdgpu/src/rtl.cpp
@@ -2537,6 +2537,13 @@ struct AMDGPUDeviceTy : public GenericDeviceTy, AMDGenericDeviceTy {
                                           getAgent(), (uint64_t)Size);
   }
 
+  /// Insert a data fence between previous data operations and the following
+  /// operations. This is a no-op for AMDGPU devices as operations inserted into
+  /// a queue are in-order.
+  Error dataFence(__tgt_async_info *Async) override {
+    return Plugin::success();
+  }
+
   /// Initialize the async info for interoperability purposes.
   Error initAsyncInfoImpl(AsyncInfoWrapperTy &AsyncInfoWrapper) override {
     // TODO: Implement this function.
diff --git a/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/include/PluginInterface.h b/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/include/PluginInterface.h
index c9ab34b024b77..1b110f6b74553 100644
--- a/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/include/PluginInterface.h
+++ b/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/include/PluginInterface.h
@@ -944,6 +944,10 @@ struct GenericDeviceTy : public DeviceAllocatorTy {
   virtual Error dataRetrieveImpl(void *HstPtr, const void *TgtPtr, int64_t Size,
                                  AsyncInfoWrapperTy &AsyncInfoWrapper) = 0;
 
+  /// Instert a data fence between previous data operations and the following
+  /// operations if necessary for the device
+  virtual Error dataFence(__tgt_async_info *AsyncInfo) = 0;
+
   /// Exchange data between devices (device to device transfer). Calling this
   /// function is only valid if GenericPlugin::isDataExchangable() passing the
   /// two devices returns true.
@@ -1448,6 +1452,10 @@ struct GenericPluginTy {
                               int DstDeviceId, void *DstPtr, int64_t Size,
                               __tgt_async_info *AsyncInfo);
 
+  /// Places a fence between previous data movements and following data
+  /// movements if necessary on the device
+  int32_t data_fence(int32_t DeviceId, __tgt_async_info *AsyncInfo);
+
   /// Begin executing a kernel on the given device.
   int32_t launch_kernel(int32_t DeviceId, void *TgtEntryPtr, void **TgtArgs,
                         ptrdiff_t *TgtOffsets, KernelArgsTy *KernelArgs,
diff --git a/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/src/PluginInterface.cpp b/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/src/PluginInterface.cpp
index 083d41659a469..5a7d8e936313f 100644
--- a/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/src/PluginInterface.cpp
+++ b/offload/plugins-nextgen/common/src/PluginInterface.cpp
@@ -2324,3 +2324,15 @@ int32_t GenericPluginTy::async_barrier(omp_interop_val_t *Interop) {
   }
   return OFFLOAD_SUCCESS;
 }
+
+int32_t GenericPluginTy::data_fence(int32_t DeviceId,
+                                    __tgt_async_info *AsyncInfo) {
+  auto Err = getDevice(DeviceId).dataFence(AsyncInfo);
+  if (Err) {
+    REPORT("failure to place data fence on device %d: %s\n", DeviceId,
+           toString(std::move(Err)).data());
+    return OFFLOAD_FAIL;
+  }
+
+  return OFFLOAD_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/offload/plugins-nextgen/cuda/src/rtl.cpp b/offload/plugins-nextgen/cuda/src/rtl.cpp
index 82c9f9b706cbd..f3b2229daf372 100644
--- a/offload/plugins-nextgen/cuda/src/rtl.cpp
+++ b/offload/plugins-nextgen/cuda/src/rtl.cpp
@@ -856,6 +856,13 @@ struct CUDADeviceTy : public GenericDeviceTy {
     return Plugin::success();
   }
 
+  /// Insert a data fence between previous data operations and the following
+  /// operations. This is a no-op for CUDA devices as operations inserted into
+  /// a queue are in-order.
+  Error dataFence(__tgt_async_info *Async) override {
+    return Plugin::success();
+  }
+
   /// Initialize the device info for interoperability purposes.
   Error initDeviceInfoImpl(__tgt_device_info *DeviceInfo) override {
     assert(Context && "Context is null");
diff --git a/offload/plugins-nextgen/host/src/rtl.cpp b/offload/plugins-nextgen/host/src/rtl.cpp
index ed5213531999d..b88435aa9e02b 100644
--- a/offload/plugins-nextgen/host/src/rtl.cpp
+++ b/offload/plugins-nextgen/host/src/rtl.cpp
@@ -295,6 +295,13 @@ struct GenELF64DeviceTy : public GenericDeviceTy {
                          "dataExchangeImpl not supported");
   }
 
+  /// Insert a data fence between previous data operations and the following
+  /// operations. This is a no-op for Host devices as operations inserted into
+  /// a queue are in-order.
+  Error dataFence(__tgt_async_info *Async) override {
+    return Plugin::success();
+  }
+
   /// All functions are already synchronous. No need to do anything on this
   /// synchronization function.
   Error synchronizeImpl(__tgt_async_info &AsyncInfo,