Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: lock-free queues
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: to syys 30 1999 - 15:05:13 EDT
>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.
yes, they use compare-and-swap, which doesn't exist on the x86 (well,
it didn't up to the 486 - did Intel come to their senses and add it ?)
--p
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