[Boost-users] Thread safe intrusive ptr

I'm in the process of changing some of my shared_ptr's to intrusive_ptr's, and I'm trying to see how difficult it will be to make it thread-safe. I need intrusive_ptr's mostly due to size constraints(allocating an extremely large number of small objects), and also the ThisPtr issue. I tried to search and find any information about making them thread-safe, but what I found didn't explain the solution or the issues. What are the considerations for making intrusive_ptr thread safe? Is it as simple as a mutex-lock / atomic counter variable? Thanks, Jared