On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:33:57AM -0800, Boehm, Hans wrote: ... > - At user level, the ordering semantics required for something like > pthread_mutex_lock() are unfortunately unclear. If you try to interpret > the current standard, you arrive at the conclusion that > pthread_mutex_lock() basically needs a full barrier, though > pthread_mutex_unlock() doesn't. (See > http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-217.html .) Was the talk you presented at the May 2005 Gelato meeting in Cupertino based on an earlier version of this paper? That was a very good presentation that exposed the deficiencies in the programming models and languages. If the slides and/or a recording are available, that might be helpful here too. thanks, grant - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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