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Re: Use same variable in different threads [message #30154 is a reply to message #30138] Sun, 12 December 2010 09:43 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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gprentice wrote on Fri, 10 December 2010 19:37


After googling for a while, I haven't found any clear explanation of how a mutex solves the caching and memory visibility issues.



Because mutex acts as memory barrier... Smile

If you read _very_ carefully the POSIX threads docs, it can be (sort of) derived from the information there. Well, to be more specific, the mutex implementation has to act as memory barrier to support POSIX mutex specification...

Mirek
 
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