Re: cas latch

From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:16:51 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20061030171651.82238.qmail@web57007.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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.


 
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----- Original Message ----
From: LS Cheng <exriscer@gmail.com>
To: oracle-l <oracle-l@freelists.org>
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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