Re: portable proxy collector test...

On 12/6/24 16:12, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 12/6/2024 11:55 AM, Brett wrote:

Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:

I am wondering if anybody can try to compile and run this C++11 code of
mine for a portable word-based proxy collector, a sort of poor mans RCU,
on an ARM based system? I don't have access to one. I am interested in
the resulting output.

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https://godbolt.org
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 It seems that all of the atomics are LDREX/STREX wrt fetch_add/sub . Even with relaxed memory order. Are the LDREX/STREX similar to the LOCK prefix on an x86/64?
 https://godbolt.org/z/EPGYWve71
 It has loops for this in the ASM code. Adding a loop in there can change things from wait-free to lock-free. Humm...
 

Which compiler did you choose.  armv8?  Try ARM64.
The newer arms have new atomics
cas and atomic fetch ops.
LDREX/STREX is the older load store reserved.
On the newer stuff it's ldxr/stxr not ldrex/strex.