So, I understand that the difficulty is being able to reset the barrier without a quiescent period. It seems to me that a counter being able to count to n is e

So, I understand that the difficulty is being able to reset the barrier without a quiescent period. It seems to me that a counter being able to count to n is enough and there is no need of an explicit phase bit: Wait(int *b, int n): 1: x = *b if (x == n-1) *b=0 //last, reset else if cas(b, x, x+1) 2: if *b goto 2 else goto 1