In this particular case, from the time totalRequests is fetched until the time the updated value is stored, totalRequests does not satisfy the invariant.
(It is transiently invalid or false during some portion of the processing). The third condition is that the invariant property does NOT hold during some part of the actual update.
Typically, this invariant property needs to hold true (in this case, totalRequests must hold an accurate count) before an update occurs for the update to be correct.
In the above example, the property is that “ totalRequests must accurately represent the total number of times any thread has executed any part of the increment statement”.
The second condition is that there is a property (often called an invariant), which is associated with these shared memory locations, that must be true, or valid, for the program to function correctly.Each thread gets it's own stack frame for function/method scoped local variables, so these local function/method variables, otoh, (which are on the stack) are accessible only from the one thread that owns that stack. Typically, these locations are global/static variables or are heap memory reachable from global/static variables. The first condition is that there are memory locations that are accessible from more than one thread.MOV, EAX // store updated value back to memory MOV EAX, // load memory for tot Requests into register
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