Re: Atomic set for double

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From: Nikita Andreev (lestat_at_kemsu.ru)
Date: Thu Feb 11 2010 - 19:38:24 PST

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    Dorian,

> a) There is no user control over the "affinity" of a lock, right? It
> seems to me that e.g. in your Berkeley implementation, all locks are
> managed on thread 0. It appears to me that "localized locks" with
> affinity to some thread would be nice to have in the standard ...

Paul, correct if I'm wrong but in UPC you can use upc_global_lock_alloc. It 
returns a pointer to the lock object in the calling thread. The pointer 
itself can be declared in the thread's private space.

Nikita
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