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Re: Spin barrier

From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
To: Ed <icelus2k5 at gmail dot com>
Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:29:03 -0400
Subject: Re: Spin barrier
References: <AANLkTinje9CkbVbxQasRuLxQeSRYVCzSEmJ12zD1bvCt@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ed <icelus2k5@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place for this. I wrote a spin barrier
> for x86_64 based on the NPTL code in
> nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthread_spin_lock.c. Since I started from this
> file I'm guessing my code is irrevocably LGPL, which means I can put
> it here for anyone else needs this. Maybe something like it is worth
> having as another primitive in NPTL.

Thanks for the interesting post!

Truthfully I would be more interested on seeing the problems you
encountered using pthread_barrier_t and what led you to choose a
custom spin barrier implementation?

Cheers,
Carlos.

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