I am looking for spinlocks that use a single bit (bit 31) of a 32 bit word for locking. The rest of the bits in the word are left undisturbed. This enables more compact data structures as only 1 bit is consumed for the lock.
Thanks Pash -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monja...@6wind.com] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 2:02 PM To: Pashupati Kumar Cc: dev at dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Bit spinlocks in DPDK Hello, 06/12/2013 13:04, Pashupati Kumar : > We use bit spinlocks extensively to have compact data structures. Are > there any plans for adding them to DPDK in some future release? Not sure to understand your request. Are you looking for that? http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__spinlock_8h.html -- Thomas
