atom 0.4.0

A safe abstraction around AtomicPtr
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//   Copyright 2015 Colin Sherratt
//
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extern crate atom;

use atom::*;
use std::mem;
use std::sync::{atomic::Ordering, Arc, Barrier};
use std::thread;

const THREADS: usize = 100;

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Link {
    next: AtomSetOnce<Box<Link>>,
}

impl Drop for Link {
    fn drop(&mut self) {
        // This is done to avoid a recusive drop of the List
        while let Some(mut h) = self.next.atom().take(Ordering::Acquire) {
            self.next = mem::replace(&mut h.next, AtomSetOnce::empty());
        }
    }
}

fn main() {
    let b = Arc::new(Barrier::new(THREADS + 1));

    let head = Arc::new(Link {
        next: AtomSetOnce::empty(),
    });

    for _ in 0..THREADS {
        let b = b.clone();
        let head = head.clone();
        thread::spawn(move || {
            let mut hptr = &*head;

            for _ in 0..10_000 {
                let mut my_awesome_node = Box::new(Link {
                    next: AtomSetOnce::empty(),
                });

                loop {
                    while let Some(h) = hptr.next.get(Ordering::Acquire) {
                        hptr = h;
                    }

                    my_awesome_node =
                        match hptr.next.set_if_none(my_awesome_node, Ordering::Release) {
                            Some(v) => v,
                            None => break,
                        };
                }
            }
            b.wait();
        });
    }

    b.wait();

    let mut hptr = &*head;
    let mut count = 0;
    while let Some(h) = hptr.next.get(Ordering::Acquire) {
        hptr = h;
        count += 1;
    }
    println!(
        "Using {} threads we wrote {} links at the same time!",
        THREADS, count
    );
}