Finally made it through this. Very interesting talk and it confirms my understan...

dcow on Nov 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Designing a Lock-free, Wait-free Hash Map

Finally made it through this. Very interesting talk and it confirms my understanding that lock free is not wait free and that with hardware atomic instructions you're delegating the locking to the hardware but still relying on correctly placed memory barriers to guarantee the consistency you need.