Refactor task-manager tid counter to generic lockfree algorithm.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/util/lockfree/counter.H b/src/include/util/lockfree/counter.H
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+++ b/src/include/util/lockfree/counter.H
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+#ifndef __UTIL_LOCKFREE_COUNTER_H
+#define __UTIL_LOCKFREE_COUNTER_H
+
+namespace Util
+{
+    namespace Lockfree
+    {
+	template <typename _T>
+	class Counter
+	{
+	    public:
+		Counter() : value(_T()) {};
+
+		_T next() { return __sync_fetch_and_add(&value, 1); };
+
+	    private:
+		_T value;
+	};
+    };
+};
+
+
+#endif