Subject: Re: lock-free data structures
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/05/2006 22:01:35
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:01:25PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> (Btw, I remember an old paper about using CAS2 for more complicated
> structure manipulations - this would be slow on 68060 machines, as CAS2
> (and unaligned CAS) trap on the '060 and have to be emulated.)

I managed to use CAS (or maybe it was CAS2) for a linked list once, but
the code is so tortuous I switched to disabling interrupts....

	David

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