Atomic operations on i386/amd64

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:29:57 +0300, Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will+freebsd-current at will.iki.fi> said:

> The idea of using self-modification to select locking modes (although 
> for optional preemption, SMP and debugging rather than CPU model) is 
> also described in a DEC Technical Journal article:

> http://research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJF03/DTJF03SC.TXT

There have been a number of research operating systems built around
this concept.  I seem to remember one called "Synthesis" which took it
to an extreme.  Calton Pu and Henry Massalin would appear to be the
authors.

-GAWollman