[cmpxchg8b]

I'm confused, is this meant to be presented as new work? Windows has done this for a very long time.

[raggi]

I found it very opaquely worded the whole way through. I think the work being presented is simply an implementation of the technique in eduos, but short of going and reading the paper I don’t know.

[protoman3000]

It’s a bachelor’s thesis.

[als0]

"There is only a single reference5 dated to 2010 indicating that Microsoft might use a similar approach for its NT kernel."

[cmpxchg8b]

Googling for it brings up a ton of results.