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:> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
:> : What about it in particular? Or are you referring to overflow handling?
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:> Yes. Well, I guess I assumed it was a circular thing, and you'd need
:> to have some comparison against read index, which would be racible.
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:Not if you think about it; all you need are atomic read/write operations
:for the indexes. Circular FIFOs are kinda neat like that. 8)
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:\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith
Well, monotonically increasing (except when it wraps), and atomic
writes. Atomic read-modify-writes are not required which means that
no locking is needed at all, not even a 'lock' prefix (though on some
architectures you have to worry about delayed commits between cpu's).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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