<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 07 Feb 2013, at 12:52, Jonas Maebe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">It doesn't belong in our manuals. Anyone who wants to manually create low level thread synchronisation primitives will have to know a lot more about cpu architecture and memory consistency models then we could ever describe in our documentation.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>In case anyone is interested, some good documents on this topic are:</div><div>* <a href="http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/ordering.2007.09.19a.pdf">http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/ordering.2007.09.19a.pdf</a></div><div>* <a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt">http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonas</div></body></html>