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Subject: Re: shared hashing without lock/unlock

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 11:02:49 09/15/99

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On September 15, 1999 at 09:00:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Tim Mann suggested a new hashing scheme that
>is cute for SMP users, as it effectively eliminates the Lock()/UnLock() calls
>without the danger of incorrect hash results.

Would you please explain briefly, how this can be done (i.e. maintaining
atomicity of shared multi word hash entries without lock/unlock) ?
Sounds really interesting.

Heiner



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