From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Portable memory barrier?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:38:12 -0500
Date: 2017-05-10T19:38:12-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <of0bpk$2ce$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oeueil$knn$1@gioia.aioe.org
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On 10/05/2017 02:51, Jere wrote:
>
>> Is there a method besides Atomic? If I am implementing a generic FIFO
>> (lock
>> free) and the FIFO elements are complex data types that may not be able
>> to be
>> atomic, do I have any other options or are protected objects my only way
>> out?
>
> But you don't need elements atomic only index has to. If I understood
> Randy's explanation correctly atomic access to the buffer index will give
> you the barrier between index and element accesses which is all that is
> required.
Correct. The compiler can't motion (or let the CPU motion) volatile
reads/writes across an atomic read/write. Thus you can depend on the order
of volatile operations so long as an atomic operation is interleaved.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 2:23 Portable memory barrier? Jere
2017-05-06 8:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-05-06 14:17 ` Jere
2017-05-06 19:08 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-05-06 19:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-05-06 19:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-05-06 20:42 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-05-09 19:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-09 22:07 ` Jere
2017-05-11 1:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-10 18:28 ` Shark8
2017-05-11 1:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-11 16:23 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-05-07 20:18 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-08 7:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-08 15:56 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-08 16:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-08 18:39 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-08 19:18 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-08 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-08 23:24 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-09 0:30 ` Jere
2017-05-09 4:02 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-09 4:32 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-09 4:44 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-09 22:26 ` Jere
2017-05-09 20:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-09 19:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-10 0:51 ` Jere
2017-05-10 5:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-05-10 22:56 ` Jere
2017-05-11 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-13 20:25 ` Jere
2017-05-10 7:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-10 16:45 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-10 17:28 ` Simon Wright
2017-05-10 23:21 ` Jere
2017-05-11 0:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-13 20:11 ` Jere
2017-05-15 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-10 23:30 ` Jere
2017-05-11 0:38 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-05-10 16:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-05-10 23:40 ` Jere
2017-05-10 16:19 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-11 1:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-11 1:51 ` Robert Eachus
2017-05-15 22:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-08 20:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-05-08 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-09 4:34 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-05-09 6:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-05-09 8:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-09 20:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-09 20:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-09 0:05 ` Jere
2017-05-09 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-09 19:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-09 20:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-11 0:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-11 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-15 22:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-18 17:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-18 21:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-05-19 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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