Subj : Re: Hazard Pointers w/o memory barrier.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Thu Apr 21 2005 12:24 pm

> You could probably also detect quiescent states by counting the 
> context-switches per-thread using the performance api's...

Arggfhgh!

You need to do a device driver in order to tap into the "context-swap" hook 
like Russinovich uses in PMon.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pmon.shtml

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