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Re: About lockfree and waitfree...

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.programming.threads, comp.programming, comp.arch
Subject Re: About lockfree and waitfree...
Date 2014-04-14 14:23 -0700
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <lihjlm$q0$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References <lif821$inj$1@news.albasani.net> <lifhn6$j92$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lifi9j$ka7$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lihioq$ubs$1@speranza.aioe.org>

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> "Chris M. Thomasson"  wrote in message 
> news:lihioq$ubs$1@speranza.aioe.org... [...]
> correction:

> public void signal()
> {
>       // MEMBAR BEFORE the DAMN LOAD!!!
>       System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier();
>
>       // DO THE LOAD.
>       long cmp = System.Threading.Thread.VolatileRead(ref m_count);
>
>       // WAKE A WAITER!
>       prv_signal(cmp, false);
> }


FWIW, this fix applies to the broadcast function as well.

The membar needs to be before the load of
the eventcount because the mutations to
the user state that we are signaling about
needs to be visible to the consumers.

I hate devious membar bugs!

Grrr..... 

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About lockfree and waitfree... aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-04-13 19:54 -0700
  Re: About lockfree and waitfree... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-13 19:38 -0700
    Re: About lockfree and waitfree... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-13 19:47 -0700
      Re: About lockfree and waitfree... aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-04-13 22:56 -0700
      Re: About lockfree and waitfree... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-14 14:08 -0700
        Re: About lockfree and waitfree... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-14 14:23 -0700
          Re: About lockfree and waitfree... Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-14 16:27 -0700
          Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-14 16:29 -0700
            Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-15 10:04 -0700
              Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-15 10:34 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-17 16:35 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-17 17:04 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-18 09:54 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-18 02:31 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-18 11:56 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2014-04-18 11:26 +0000
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-18 13:30 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 14:25 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 14:31 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-21 14:53 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:21 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:36 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-22 15:30 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-05-01 00:48 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-05-25 13:16 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 14:34 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-21 16:42 -0500
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-21 15:02 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-22 09:05 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2014-04-22 09:27 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-22 09:45 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-22 18:08 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2014-04-23 12:08 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-23 20:32 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2014-04-23 13:21 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-23 21:51 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Chris Gray <cg@GraySage.COM> - 2014-04-24 10:53 -0600
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) - 2014-04-24 18:02 +0100
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2014-04-25 13:39 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 22:08 -0700
            Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-04-17 21:15 -0400
              Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-04-17 21:25 -0400
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-17 19:17 -0700
                Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-04-18 00:46 -0400
              Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try) Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-04-17 18:52 -0700
    Re: About lockfree and waitfree... aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-04-13 22:54 -0700

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