Re: C++0x: release sequence
On Jun 16, 2:13 pm, Anthony Williams <anthony....@gmail.com> wrote:
Relaxed operations can read values from other threads
out-of-order. Consider the following:
atomic_int x=0;
atomic_int y=0;
Processor 1 does store-release:
A: x.store(1,memory_order_relaxed)
B: y.store(1,memory_order_release)
Processor 2 does relaxed RMW op:
int expected=1;
C: while(!y.compare_swap(expected,2,memory_order_relaxed));
Processor 3 does load-acquire:
D: a=y.load(memory_order_acquire);
E: b=x.load(memory_order_relaxed);
If a is 2, what is b?
On most common systems (e.g. x86, PowerPC, Sparc), b will be 1. This
is not guaranteed by the standard though, since this may not be
guaranteed by NUMA systems.
The problem is that it prohibits usage of relaxed fetch_add in acquire
operation in reference counting with basic thread-safety:
struct rc_t
{
std::atomic<int> rc;
};
void acquire(rc_t* obj)
{
obj->rc.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
}
This implementation can lead to data races in some usage patterns
according to C++0x. Is it intended?
Dmitriy V'jukov
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