RE: cas latch

As K Gopalakrishnan mentioned, CAS latch is "Compare and Swap".  My
understanding is that, on *most* modern CPUs, the CAS instruction is
built-in to the instruction set as an atomic operation.  In those cases,
you shouldn't see CAS latch used at all, cause Oracle can directly use
the CAS instruction itself.  In cases where the CPU does not support a
CAS instruction, Oracle has implemented the CAS functionality in
software.  To support the atomicity of the CAS functionality in
software, the CAS latch is utilized.
 
-Mark
 

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K Gopalakrishnan
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:17 PM
To: exriscer@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: Re: cas latch


Cheng,

Do you see any contention for this latch? 

CAS is Compare and Select. Check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare_and_swap for some details on CAS.



 
Have a nice day !!
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K Gopalakrishnan,
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007222729X/

Author: Oracle Database 10g RAC Handbook, Oracle Press 2006
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/ 


----- Original Message ----
From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 30 October, 2006 8:43:47 AM
Subject: cas latch

Hi

I was wondering if anyone know what does cas latch do? I know is a
shared latch but not sure for what part of SGA?

Thanks

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