2 posts with tag memory-ordering

Amortizing Cross-Core Coordination: Cursor Caching and Batch Processing

How cursor caching and batch processing amortize the cost of cross-core coordination in a lock-free SPSC ring buffer, so cores touch shared atomics a fraction as often.

· 13 minutes reading time

The Cross-Core Contract: Memory Ordering and Single-Writer State in Lock-Free Rust

How Release/Acquire ordering, Relaxed counters, and single-writer UnsafeCell state make lock-free Rust ring buffers correct and efficient.

· 12 minutes reading time