On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > >> I think you're just moving the atomic-write problem from the data pages >> to wherever you keep these pointers. > > > If the pointers are stored as simple 4-byte integers, you probably could > assume that they're atomic, and won't be torn.
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