base/common/src/main/com/thesett/common/util/concurrent/LockFreeNQueue.java
public boolean offer(E o)
    {
        /*log.fine("public boolean offer(E o): called");*/
        /*log.fine("o = " + o);*/

        // Ensure that the item to add is not null.
        if (o == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The 'o' parameter may not be null.");
        }

        // Derive the integer priority of the element using the priority function, shift it into this queues range if
        // necessary and adjust it to any offset caused by lowest priority not equal to zero.
        int level = priorityToLevel(p.apply(o));
        /*log.fine("offer level = " + level);*/

        // Create a new node to hold the new data element.
        Node<E> newNode = new DataNode<E>(o, markers[level + 1]);

        // Add the element to the tail of the queue with matching level, looping until this can complete as an atomic
        // operation.
        while (true)
        {
            // Get tail and next ref. Would expect next ref to be null, but other thread may update it.
            Node<E> t = markers[level + 1].getTail();
            Node<E> s = t.getNext();

            /*log.fine("t = " + t);*/
            /*log.fine("s = " + s);*/

            // Recheck the tail ref, to ensure other thread has not already moved it. This can potentially prevent
            // a relatively expensive compare and set from failing later on, if another thread has already shited
            // the tail.
            if (t == markers[level + 1].getTail())
            {
                /*log.fine("t is still the tail.");*/

                // Check that the next element reference on the tail is the tail marker, to confirm that another thread
                // has not updated it. Again, this may prevent a cas from failing later.
                if (s == markers[level + 1])
                {
                    /*log.fine("s is  the tail marker.");*/

                    // Try to join the new tail onto the old one.
                    if (t.casNext(s, newNode))
                    {
                        // The tail join was succesfull, so now update the queues tail reference. No conflict should
                        // occurr here as the tail join was succesfull, so its just a question of updating the tail
                        // reference. A compare and set is still used because ...
                        markers[level + 1].casTail(t, newNode);

                        // Increment the queue size count.
                        count.incrementAndGet();

                        return true;
                    }
                }

                // Update the tail reference, other thread may also be doing the same.
                else
                {
                    // Why bother doing this at all? I suppose, because another thread may be stalled and doing this
                    // will enable this one to keep running.
                    // Update the tail reference for the queue because another thread has already added a new tail
                    // but not yet managed to update the tail reference.
                    markers[level + 1].casTail(t, s);
                }
            }
        }
    }
public boolean offer(E o)
    {
        /*log.fine("public boolean offer(E o): called");*/
        /*log.fine("o = " + o);*/

        // Ensure that the item to add is not null.
        if (o == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The 'o' parameter may not be null.");
        }

        // Derive the integer priority of the element using the priority function, shift it into this queues range if
        // necessary and adjust it to any offset caused by lowest priority not equal to zero.
        int level = priorityToLevel(p.apply(o));
        /*log.fine("offer level = " + level);*/

        // Create a new node to hold the new data element.
        Node<E> newNode = new DataNode<E>(o, markers[level + 1]);

        // Add the element to the tail of the queue with matching level, looping until this can complete as an atomic
        // operation.
        while (true)
        {
            // Get tail and next ref. Would expect next ref to be null, but other thread may update it.
            Node<E> t = markers[level + 1].getTail();
            Node<E> s = t.getNext();

            /*log.fine("t = " + t);*/
            /*log.fine("s = " + s);*/

            // Recheck the tail ref, to ensure other thread has not already moved it. This can potentially prevent
            // a relatively expensive compare and set from failing later on, if another thread has already shited
            // the tail.
            if (t == markers[level + 1].getTail())
            {
                /*log.fine("t is still the tail.");*/

                // Check that the next element reference on the tail is the tail marker, to confirm that another thread
                // has not updated it. Again, this may prevent a cas from failing later.
                if (s == markers[level + 1])
                {
                    /*log.fine("s is  the tail marker.");*/

                    // Try to join the new tail onto the old one.
                    if (t.casNext(s, newNode))
                    {
                        // The tail join was succesfull, so now update the queues tail reference. No conflict should
                        // occurr here as the tail join was succesfull, so its just a question of updating the tail
                        // reference. A compare and set is still used because ...
                        markers[level + 1].casTail(t, newNode);

                        // Increment the queue size count.
                        count.incrementAndGet();

                        return true;
                    }
                }

                // Update the tail reference, other thread may also be doing the same.
                else
                {
                    // Why bother doing this at all? I suppose, because another thread may be stalled and doing this
                    // will enable this one to keep running.
                    // Update the tail reference for the queue because another thread has already added a new tail
                    // but not yet managed to update the tail reference.
                    markers[level + 1].casTail(t, s);
                }
            }
        }
    }
Inserts the specified element onto the tail of this queue.

@param  o the element to add, may not be null.

@return <tt>true</tt> (as per the general contract of <tt>Queue.offer</tt>).

@todo   Compare and set possibly not needed after the succesfull tail join. Straight update looks like it should
work? I may have missed something here.