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Re: Two sequence numbers

Posted Feb 6, 2003 5:46 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Two sequence numbers by Ross
Parent article: Fast reader/writer locks

I think I got my answer. It changed to the way I suspected it could sometime since last week.

From http://lwn.net/Articles/21812/:

"Changes:
- name change frlock to seqlock
- separate the locking and counter only data types
- use one counter instead of two to keep track of changes."

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