Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 06:55:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userland atomic assignments Message-ID: <200012090655.XAA08475@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200012090629.WAA28103@sharmas.dhs.org> from "Arun Sharma" at Dec 08, 2000 10:29:19 PM
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> > I don't need cmpset operations, just atomic int32 and ptr assignments. > > The latter would be good enough to let me walk a simple list without > > having to take a lock. > > I thought the following URL might be useful to you: > > http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/www/u/scott/synchronization/home.html > > Especially, the concurrent queue algorithms. The preemption-safe reader-writer locks seem to be excellent, and just what the doctor ordered for Julian's work on netgraph... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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