Introduce Spinlock class

Initialization is more complex than what I'd like due
to MSVC compatibility that for some reason does not like:

std::atomic_flag lock = ATOMIC_FLAG_INIT;

No functional change.

diff --git a/src/thread.h b/src/thread.h
index 606f96262dd72ead3f3672a45c1148f840efcb97..166ea80f65a8af4ec6dca96ada543142873e71c4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/thread.h
+++ b/src/thread.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #ifndef THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 #define THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 
 #ifndef THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 #define THREAD_H_INCLUDED
 

+#include <atomic>

 #include <bitset>
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <bitset>
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <mutex>


@@ -69,6 +70,19 @@ struct SplitPoint {
 };
 
 
 };
 
 

+/// Spinlock class wraps low level atomic operations to provide spin lock functionality
+
+class Spinlock {
+
+  std::atomic_flag lock;
+
+public:
+  Spinlock() { std::atomic_flag_clear(&lock); }
+  void acquire() { while (lock.test_and_set(std::memory_order_acquire)) {} }
+  void release() { lock.clear(std::memory_order_release); }
+};
+
+

 /// ThreadBase struct is the base of the hierarchy from where we derive all the
 /// specialized thread classes.
 
 /// ThreadBase struct is the base of the hierarchy from where we derive all the
 /// specialized thread classes.