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Mastering C++ Multithreading
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Mastering C++ Multithreading

by Maya Posch
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Release-acquire ordering

If an atomic store in thread A is tagged memory_order_release and an atomic load in thread B from the same variable is tagged memory_order_acquire, all memory writes (non-atomic and relaxed atomic) that happened before the atomic store from the point of view of thread A, become visible side-effects in thread B. That is, once the atomic load has been completed, thread B is guaranteed to see everything thread A wrote to memory.

This type of operation is automatic on so-called strongly ordered architectures, including x86, SPARC, and POWER. Weakly-ordered architectures, such as ARM, PowerPC, and Itanium, will require the use of memory barriers here.

Typical applications of this type of memory ordering include mutual ...

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