Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:43 AM, lieven moors <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here are the details... >> >> http://effocore.googlecode.com/files/EffoDesign_LockFree.pdf >> > > these concepts have been around in this community (and others) for > years. i suspect that it is more than a decade since the folks at > GRAME published their paper on lock free data structures (used in > MidiShare), and its probably a decade or more since LAD first > discussed lock free (single-read/single-writer) ringbuffers. there's > nothing wrong with having new eyes and new ideas but i couldn't see > anything from a casual glance in that paper that hasn't been > documented and used by people on this list for a long time. > > --p > > I just wanted to say that these concepts are still above my head because I am not an experienced programmer...
I know that ringbuffers are lock-free by design for two threads, but I find it hard to understand what it means for a ringbuffer or a queue to use atomic operations. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
