Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems
Current algorithms for reader-writer synchronization exhibit poor scalability because they do not allow readers to acquire locks independently. We describe two new algorithms for reader-writer synchronization that allow parallelism among readers during lock acquisition.
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2023
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| author | Hsieh, William C. Weihl, William E. |
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| description | Current algorithms for reader-writer synchronization exhibit poor scalability because they do not allow readers to acquire locks independently. We describe two new algorithms for reader-writer synchronization that allow parallelism among readers during lock acquisition. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1497162023-03-30T04:18:11Z Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems Hsieh, William C. Weihl, William E. Current algorithms for reader-writer synchronization exhibit poor scalability because they do not allow readers to acquire locks independently. We describe two new algorithms for reader-writer synchronization that allow parallelism among readers during lock acquisition. 2023-03-29T15:18:23Z 2023-03-29T15:18:23Z 1991-11 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149716 24854460 MIT-LCS-TR-521 application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Hsieh, William C. Weihl, William E. Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title | Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title_full | Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title_fullStr | Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title_short | Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems |
| title_sort | scalable reader writer locks for parallel systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149716 |
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