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Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try)

From	Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.programming.threads, comp.programming, comp.arch
Subject	Re: About lockfree and waitfree... (2nd try)
Date	2014-04-22 09:27 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/22/2014 1:05 AM, Nick Maclaren wrote:
> In article <lj44ik$437$1@dont-email.me>,
> Ivan Godard  <ivan@ootbcomp.com> wrote:
>>
>> The TANs I had in mind need not be sequential but must be ordered by
>> access. That is, they must map to the time arrow but may have holes in
>> the sequence. The numbers are to be used to give a priority ordering to
>> ensure fairness in places where starvation is possible. The scheme you
>> describe gives unique numbers, but not a global ordering. Or at least,
>> if I have understood it :-)
>
> Yes.  Providing something that supports those algorithms is hard
> to make efficient on more than a few cores.

Yes, but as I understand Ivan's previous posts, there is no intent to 
provide this capability over more cores than are in a single chip.  Is 
that correct Ivan?  If that is so, then the scaling issues aren't a 
problem.  Heck, even for a system with a few chips on a board, with say 
core total counts in the 10s of cores, a simple scheme should work 
pretty well.  You can create problem situations like every executing 
reads of that register in a single instruction loop, but in real world 
usage, it should be fine.

All you really need is a single register (with appropriate arbitration) 
that is incremented after each read.  Or, if you already have a global 
time of day/date clock, you can use that with another, shorter, register 
logically appended to it with the shorter register incremented on each 
read and reset to zero on each TOD click.

-- 
  - Stephen Fuld
(e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)

Thread

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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