Re: Double checked locking pattern article on aristeia
Dave Abrahams wrote:
[...]
Yes, basically. There are some (expert-only) uses for "half-barriers"
that allow movement of some operations, but mutex locks are basically
always associated with strict, sequentially-consistent barriers.
I always thought that C++11 mutex locks can be expressed in terms of
relaxed C++11 atomic<> operations and acquire/release fences (not the
same as memory_order_seq_cst fence).
(pseudo-code, swap = exchange)
class swap_based_mutex_for_windows { // noncopyable
atomic<int> m_lock_status; // 0: free, 1/-1: locked/contention
auto_reset_event m_retry_event; // slow binary semaphore (windows)
public:
// ctor/dtor [w/o lazy event init]
void lock() throw() {
if (m_lock_status.swap(1, memory_order_relaxed))
while (m_lock_status.swap(-1, memory_order_relaxed))
m_retry_event.wait();
atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire);
}
void unlock() throw() {
atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release);
if (m_lock_status.swap(0, memory_order_relaxed) < 0)
m_retry_event.set();
}
};
regards,
alexander.
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