Re:Atomics and Concurrency
by wbl on Friday May 30, 2025 @01:44PM
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Really finicky ones, and the initial ones made none. I think for RISC-V it's something like max 16 instructions covered with no other memory accesses to be assured progress on ll/sc sequences.
That's to enable very minimal hardware implementations that can only track one line at a time.
That's to enable very minimal hardware implementations that can only track one line at a time.