Subj : Re: possible lock-free stack on G4 livelock issue...
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : SenderX
Date : Mon Jan 17 2005 04:45 pm

>> For push you could just do a regular load and store into the new node,
>> then do a load reserved and test that value with the previously loaded
>> value and retry if different.  Might need a sync between the store and
>> load reserved which would be expensive so I'd confirm it was actually
>> going to be a problem first before trying that approach.
>
> Actually, this is what the list insertion example in appendix E of the
> powerpc architecture manual does.  There's only the one sync but you
> need it anyway.

Ahh yeah, it mentions all of this stuff. Here I thought I found something. I 
really need to brush up on my ppc asm; RTFM   ;)

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