Re: Examples of PLO use

2011-04-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:49:42 -0700 Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: :On 4/16/2011 6:28 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: : ... the basic advantage of the : PLO is that it avoids the need for locks with non-contiguous serialized areas : if the retry rate is low. :Also, unlike CD[S], PLO

Re: Examples of PLO use

2011-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Apr 17, 2011, at 05:58, John McKown wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what you mean by n locked operations to per performed simultaneously. Do you mean that the other three operations: TS, CS, and CDS cause all other CPs in a CEC to stop processing instructions (at an