Re: [linux-audio-dev] lock-free queues

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] lock-free queues
From: est_AT_hyperreal.org
Date: to syys 30 1999 - 13:45:22 EDT

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est_AT_hyperreal.org discourseth:
>
> www.cs.rpi.edu/~valoisj/papers/queues.html
> and
> www.cs.rpi.edu/~valoisj/papers/thesis.html
>
> are interesting. They require atomic operations that aren't portably
> available. In fact, I don't even know to what extent x86 supports
> them..though I'd like to.

Hrm..well, i486 has the compare&swap instruction.

Eric

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