Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 14:34 schrieb Oleg Verych:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 12:31 schrieb Joris van Rantwijk:
> > > A spinlock should certainly be sufficient. I think spinlocks have a
> > > memory barrier built-in, otherwise they would be pretty useless.
> >
> > They do, as do all locks.
>
> Hm. I thought problem is serializing, rather than access to lock
> variable. And i doubt memory barrier is a *must* for spin locks.
Locks are used to guarantee that nobody sees an inconsistent state.
Therefore memory ordering must be ensured.
Regards
Oliver
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