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2007 Jul 09
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[LLVMdev] Proposal for atomic and synchronization instructions
On 7/9/07, John Criswell <criswell at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 1) You may want to consider adding atomic load-<bitwise operation>-store
> instructions in addition to load-<add/subtract> instructions. The Linux
> kernel uses these for atomic bit setting/clearing, and on many systems
> they can be implemented more efficiently using special assembly
> instructions.