On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:35:20 -0400 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote:
:>In <[email protected]>, on 09/12/2013 :> at 10:39 AM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> said: :>>As Jim pointed out, obviously the other processor cannot free these :>>areas until all processors acknowledge the attempt. :>It wasn't obvious until he told us about the shoulder tap and spin :>loop. As the data is available to other processors, it was obvious to me that changes could not be made unilaterally. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
