[linux-audio-dev] lock-free data structures

[Jens M Andreasen]

On fre, 2004-06-18 at 08:25, Tim Hockin wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:22:29PM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> > One final thing: I'm not sure if this is a problem in practice, but 
> > most (if not all) processors do not guarantee that memory reads and 
> > writes are performed in order ...

> 
> Yes, this was discussed here a while back. For all practical platforms
> that the developers cared about, 32 bit aligned access are atomic.
> 
> They are not guaranteed to STAY that way, but for now..

And the most likely outcome for a change in 32 bit atomic access will be
a kick upwards to 64 bits ...

mvh // Jens M Andreasen