Re: fetch_and_add() available on PPC Linux?

"Michael R. Zucca" [off-list ref] writes:

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The only caveat is that the ptr to any two of these items must be in
individual lock granules. If the software has an array of locks that are
just a bunch of long-words, there's going to be difficultly. However, given
that this was an AIX box, and was probably a POWER machine, it's likely
that the POWER machine has the same lock granule restriction.

See the PPC manual for the lock granule size. I forget what it is off the
top of my head.

It is architected to be one cache block. On the 'desktop' PowerPCs (6xx, 7xx,
7xxx) that currently means 32 bytes. Some embedded models (4xx, 5xx?) have
cache blocks of 16 bytes.

  Holger


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