fencing, was: A Lock-Free Hash

Tom Roche <[email protected]> Wed, 28 May 2008 19:03:51 -0400

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Pete Soper Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:30 AM
 > Even a single, simple (fenceless) CAS

What does "fence" mean in this context? My only contact with the term
(in an IT context :-) is fencing off a dead node in a cluster, and CAS
I understand only as an operation (from my one assembler class).

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