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atomics Atomic Functions

This module provides a set of functions to do atomic operations towards mutable atomic variables. The implementation utilizes only atomic hardware instructions without any software level locking, which makes it very efficient for concurrent access. The atomics are organized into arrays with the following semantics:

Atomics are 64 bit integers.

Atomics can be represented as either signed or unsigned.

Atomics wrap around at overflow and underflow operations.

All operations guarantee atomicity. No intermediate results can be seen. The result of one mutation can only be the input to one following mutation.

All atomic operations are mutually ordered. If atomic B is updated after atomic A, then that is how it will appear to any concurrent readers. No one can read the new value of B and then read the old value of A.

Indexes into atomic arrays are one-based. An atomic array of arity N contains N atomics with index from 1 to N.

Identifies an atomic array returned from new/2.

 Create atomic array

Create a new atomic array of Arity atomics.

Argument Opts is a list of the following possible options:

{signed, boolean()}

Indicate if the elements of the array will be treated as signed or unsigned integers. Default is true (signed).

The integer interval for signed atomics are from -(1 bsl 63) to (1 bsl 63)-1 and for unsigned atomics from 0 to (1 bsl 64)-1.

Atomics are not tied to the current process and are automatically garbage collected when they are no longer referenced.

 Set atomic value

Set atomic to Value.

 Read atomic value

Read atomic value.

 Add to atomic

Add Incr to atomic.

 Atomic add and get

Atomic addition and return of the result.

 Subtract from atomic

Subtract Decr from atomic.

 Atomic sub and get

Atomic subtraction and return of the result.

 Atomic exchange.

Atomically replaces the value of the atomic with Desired and returns the value it held previously.

 Atomic compare and exchange.

Atomically compares the atomic with Expected, and if those are equal, set atomic to Desired. Returns ok if Desired was written. Returns the actual atomic value if not equal to Expected.

 Get information about atomic array.

Return information about an atomic array in a map. The map has the following keys:

size

The number of atomics in the array.

 max

The highest possible value an atomic in this array can hold.

 min

The lowest possible value an atomic in this array can hold.

 memory

Approximate memory consumption for the array in bytes.