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PPOPP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Revocable locks for non-blocking programming
In this paper we present a new form of revocable lock that streamlines the construction of higher level concurrency abstractions such as atomic multi-word heap updates. The key id...
Tim Harris, Keir Fraser
MICRO
2010
IEEE
172views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Architectural Support for Fair Reader-Writer Locking
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
Enrique Vallejo, Ramón Beivide, Adriá...