Another article talks about writing on the Xbox360, which is what I needed a queue for: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310595(VS.85).aspx On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Giovanni Piero Deretta <gpderetta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Patrick Twohig <p-twohig@ieee.org> wrote:
Theoretically, the CAS should atomically compare and swap the value in one clock cycle. However, with multiple cores/processors/hyper
multiple instructions are being executed simultaneously over arbitrary numbers of clock cycles. There can be writes pending while you want to read from memory. As a result, when you go to read something another
will have written to but you read stale data. To combat this, you enforce a memory barrier, which guarantees that all pending memory
the barrier have completed before moving on with the program. Additionally, some architectures (like x86) allow for unaligned access of memory. When an unaligned value is accessed, it sets an exception then it replaces
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Cory Nelson <phrosty@gmail.com> wrote: threading where process transactions before the
single read/write operation with multiple bus operations which wreaks havoc on any compare/swap operations.
They don't happen in a single cycle, I don't think there is anything specifying that they should. Barriers aren't needed on x86 or x64, other than compile-time only ones to make sure the compiler doesn't reorder something.
Well, you actually need StoreLoad memory barriers on x86. All other barriers are always implicit (unless you use non temporal SSE store/loads).
StoreLoad is also implicit if you use locked operations, otherwise you need an explicit mfence.
See, for example, http://g.oswego.edu/dl/jmm/cookbook.html
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