On Wed 22 Mar 2006 at 07:32PM, Rama Krishna wrote:
> In our solaris system atomic_cas( ) is not available in user
> space,to make it available we require to download some of the
> patches. So we are making use of our own atomic primitive. Base on
> your guidance we are trying to modify our
In our solaris system atomic_cas( ) is not available in user space,to make
it available we require to download some of the patches.
So we are making use of our own atomic primitive. Base on your guidance we
are trying to modify our primitive to make use of CMPXCHG instruction.
As atomic
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:10:28PM +0100, Michael Schulte wrote:
> You should find out the "atomic" native assembler instruction
> on your system that does a "cas" and try to use this for your purpose.
> Otherwise you will always have races in your code.
Well, the code below does, in fact, use an
You should find out the "atomic" native assembler instruction
on your system that does a "cas" and try to use this for your purpose.
Otherwise you will always have races in your code.
Best regards,
Michael
Rama Krishna wrote:
Hi,
Below is the atomic function of compare and swap instruction (CA
I'm no expert but if you don't have a memory operation somewhere
I doubt you will succeed.
I see
"The first which entering the code only the value of
0 in the carry flag"
are you trying to have a CAS that works only on single-cpu
systems ?
Have you identified a problem with the
