Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems

Hsieh, William C.; Weihl, William E.

Scalable Reader-writer Locks for Parallel Systems

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Hsieh, William C.

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Weihl, William E.

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November 1991

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MIT-LCS-TR-521

Abstract

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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