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.

That could backfire.


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