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RCU-safe reference counting

RCU-safe reference counting

Posted Jul 15, 2004 20:32 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
Parent article: RCU-safe reference counting

Using the assembly instruction cmpxchg is all fine and dandy if you're running on ix86 or AMD-64. What happens on the other architectures?


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RCU-safe reference counting

Posted Jul 15, 2004 20:33 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Sorry; didn't read the article throughly enough.

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