On 01/11/2018 01:19, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

ISTM you don't need that atomic operation -- you could take a spinlock
and then just add one directly to the variable.

It was my intention to provide a 1:1 conversion of existing code, as it 
should be easier to verify the correctness of the conversion, as long as 
there isn't any significant degradation in performance.

The rework could be done afterward.

--
igor