hi peter & others,
Which tests fail, by the way?
>> > >> > the stress test for the spsp_queue (spsc_queue_test_caching) ... one >> > thread enqueueing a large number of elements, one thread dequeueing >> > ... Yes but how? Which BOOST_REQUIRE fails, and what does it say?
some elements are lost ... the receiver reads less elements than the sender enqueues: BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL(received_nodes, nodes_per_thread); I think that this is a possible and legitimate outcome of your test. Nothing guarantees that the receiver will see the last batch of elements before seeing running = false. You have to set running = false from the writer thread for that to be guaranteed.
unfortunately this test still failed on one of the sandia machines (gcc-4.7.1_0x) ... iac, i wonder: would anyone be able to give me ssh access to a multi-cpu (not multi-core) machine to do some experiments? thnx, tim