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| From | Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming.threads |
| Subject | Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence |
| References | (12 earlier) <87k4clai0h.fsf@justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk> <hNpKp.4587$Z71.4302@newsfe21.iad> <87boxxahfj.fsf@justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk> <98uKp.16038$SG4.15177@newsfe03.iad> <2671e224-80a9-4e11-a224-64240676069f@y27g2000prb.googlegroups.com> |
| Date | 2011-06-17 08:03 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <871uyt3pns.fsf@justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk> (permalink) |
| Organization | CNNTP |
Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 16, 1:59 pm, "Chris M. Thomasson" <cris...@charter.net> wrote:
>> "Anthony Williams" <anthony....@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:87boxxahfj.fsf@justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk...
>> > Can you give an example of such code, along with reasoning based on the
>> > C++0x memory model to show that it is not broken?
>>
>> No. Quite frankly, it makes me want to use `std::memory_order_relaxed'
>> everywhere; ordering is provided by `std::atomic_thread_fence(...)'.
>>
>> This better fuc%ing work!
>> _________________________________________________________
>> static std::atomic<int> g_var_1(0);
>> static std::atomic<int> g_var_2(0);
>> static std::atomic<int> g_sync(0);
>>
>> void only_single_producer_in_process_lifetime()
>> {
>> g_var_1.store(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
>> g_var_2.store(3, std::memory_order_relaxed);
>> std::atomic_thread_fence(std::memory_order_seq_cst);
>> g_sync.store(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
>>
>> }
>>
>> void many_consumers_in_process_lifetime()
>> {
>> while (! g_sync.load(std::memory_order_relaxed)) BACKOFF();
>> std::atomic_thread_fence(std::memory_order_seq_cst);
>> int var_1 = var_1.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
>> int var_2 = var_2.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
>> ASSERT((var_1 + var_2) == 4);}
>
> AFAIK, the fences don't need to be seq_cst. This all works out with
> just acquire and load fences.
Agreed.
> This is another reason that I'm feeling a little miffed about seq_cst.
> Sometimes seq_cst fences don't need seq_cst reads and writes to be
> more than acq_rel fences. Sometimes they do need seq_cst reads and
> writes to be more than acq_rel fences.
True.
> seq_cst fences seem to give no guarantees for two non-seq_cst reads.
> At least, seq_cst fences gives no additional guarantees w.r.t. two non-
> seq_cst reads above and beyond the guarantees of acq_rel fences. At
> least, that's what I'm reading now. Considering I only really started
> looking at this the other day, take with great warning please.
You are right, and this is precisely the issue that was the start of
this thread. The concurrency group discussed it. Some of us thought that
SC fences should order relaxed reads, but the final result was that they
don't, as it was too expensive on some architectures (such as IA-64).
Anthony
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 08:35 +0100
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 16:54 +0100
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 17:07 +0100
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence "Chris M. Thomasson" <cristom@charter.net> - 2011-06-16 13:59 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 14:32 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 08:03 +0100
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence "Chris M. Thomasson" <cristom@charter.net> - 2011-06-18 14:40 -0700
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 23:31 -0700
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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 09:01 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 15:41 +0100
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-20 23:24 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 10:46 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 11:19 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 11:57 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-27 14:05 +0200
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 16:14 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 01:42 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-27 13:24 +0200
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 02:25 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-07-01 12:48 +0200
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-15 01:53 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-15 02:57 -0700
Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence "Chris M. Thomasson" <cristom@charter.net> - 2011-06-15 02:06 -0700
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