Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization

[Wes Peters]

Jonas Bulow wrote:
> 
> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> >
> > I don't know about the "bsd" or whatever way. If you're doing real
> > parallel programming and want real performance, you'll use a test-and-set
> > like function that uses the low-level machine instructions for same.
> 
> That is exacly what I'm looking for! I found it to be overkill to
> involve the kernel just because I wanted to have a context switch during
> the "test-and-set".

Precisely how do you expect to "have a context switch" without "involving
the kernel"?

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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