On 04/17/2012 08:44 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> For threading support, add atomic add and sub operations working on
> integers. Base this on locking support provided by virMutex.
>
> ---
> src/util/viratomic.h | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+)
>
> Index: libvirt-acl/src/util/viratomic.h
> +typedef struct _virAtomicInt virAtomicInt;
> +typedef virAtomicInt *virAtomicIntPtr;
> +
> +struct _virAtomicInt {
> + virMutex lock;
> + int value;
> +};
virMutex is very heavyweight. I'd love it if we could use gcc
primitives and/or MSVC libc primitives (where they are known to be
available), for a lighter-weight implementation on platforms that
support it. See this patch proposal (now a year old!) for some ideas
that we should fold in before 0.9.12:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-April/msg00368.html
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