Re: [boost] [Review] Review results for Lockfree

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Review results for Lockfree
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-07 14:37:10

> Hi Tim, unfortunately I don't have time to port it either, but if
> someone is interested it should be a straight-forward port provided that
> c++11-style atomics and thread-local variables are available.  I should
> note that in my lib all atomic loads/stores are relaxed by default
> (rather than seq_cst).

porting may be trivial, but integrating it into boost.lockfree to match class 
and policy interface and documenting it in a rock-solid way is not as trivial 
anymore

tim

> >>> The general interest was to have a more diverse set
> >>> of data structures available, such as a lock-free linked list or
> >>> bounded and fixed-sized data structures.
> >> 
> >> I've been sitting on a lock-free doubly-linked list, perhaps there's
> >> interest in porting it to boost. It's ABA problem free using only a
> >> 32-bit CAS. It's built off of a lock-free memory manager that could
> >> serve as the foundation for other container types (map, unordered map,
> >> bag).
> >> 
> >> The doubly-linked list, algorithm supports parallelism for disjoint
> > 
> >> accesses so contention can decrease as the list size increases:
> > i currently wouldn't have any time to port it to boost.lockfree
> > (especially since it seems to use rather different concepts than the
> > ones that i have implemented for now it would probably need some
> > adaptions) ... but i will try to assist you, if you want to try to
> > integrate it into boost.lockfree.
> > 
> > iac, maybe i can find the time to read the specific papers in the next
> > few days ...
> > 
> > cheers, tim