Mesa source tree currently has 4 abstraction of threading primitives (in 
gallium, glapi, mapi, and egl components).

I'd like to unify all them, and since now the C11 standard introduced a 
threads.h header, I'd like to use that as model.

So for I've imported a C11 threads.h implementation from 
https://gist.github.com/yohhoy/2223710 , and reimplemented all

  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jrfonseca/mesa/log/?h=c11-threads

If there are no objections, the next step would be to eliminate all threading 
abstractions and just use C11 threads.h primitives.

The only snafu is the wide spread use of static mutex initializers. It's not 
supported by C11 threads -- I believe one needs to do the initialization via 
once_init paradigm instead. But for now I just side stepped the problem by 
defining a non standard initializer. I'll revisit this later.

A nice side-benefit of this is that the pre-vista Win32 conditional var 
implement should be much better than what we have now, which should speed up 
multithreaded llvmpipe on windows substantially.

The same principle could be applied to atomic operations.

Jose
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