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From: pbonzini@redhat.com (Paolo Bonzini)
Subject: [lttng-dev] [URCU PATCH 1/3] wfcqueue: implement concurrency-efficient queue
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:33:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5073004B.2050400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121008161544.GB30083@Krystal>

Il 08/10/2012 18:15, Mathieu Desnoyers ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> We actually already have those, they are just not described in this
> comment. I will fix this right away. By the way, you will notice the
> wording:
> 
> + * Queue read operations "first" and "next", which are used by
> + * "for_each" iterations, need to be protected against concurrent
> + * "dequeue" and "splice" (for source queue) by the caller.
> 
> Being the only one iterating on a queue with local head/tail after a
> splice operation is one way to provide mutual exclusion. Holding a lock
> is not the only way to achieve mutual exclusion.

Uh, I was confused by the _blocking suffix.  But when used together with
splice you know it is not blocking---only the splice will block.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-08 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 14:13 [lttng-dev] [URCU PATCH 0/3] wait-free concurrent queues (wfcqueue) Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-02 14:14 ` [lttng-dev] [URCU PATCH 1/3] wfcqueue: implement concurrency-efficient queue Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-08 15:47   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-08 16:15     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-08 16:33       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-10-08 18:10         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-10  2:56   ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-10  4:50     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-02 14:15 ` [lttng-dev] [URCU PATCH 2/3] wfcqueue test Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-02 14:16 ` [lttng-dev] [URCU PATCH 3/3] call_rcu: use wfcqueue, eliminate false-sharing Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-08  3:09   ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-08 14:49     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-08 15:10       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08 16:03         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-03 18:28 ` [lttng-dev] [rp] [URCU PATCH 0/3] wait-free concurrent queues (wfcqueue) Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-03 21:04   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-04 18:51     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-08  3:33     ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-08 15:07       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-10  2:53         ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-10  4:59           ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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