Subj : Re: Windows Suspend/ResumeThread API equivalent for Linux or POSIX?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Thu May 12 2005 01:11 am

> If you can present a lock-based solution for iterating read-mostly data 
> structures that can beat these types of algorithms I will gladly post it 
> to my site.

I forgot to mention than an acceptable lock-based solution should not allow 
a read to block a concurrent write, or vise versa...




> My site is about mixing lock-free with lock-based, so a high-speed 
> lock-based solution to the reader-writer problem would be greatly welcome.

Here are some performance numbers that Joes RCU implementation can provide:


http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/f8a63d1d5fa6f0ee?hl=en

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/7cb61e1c4116f1ca?hl=en


That is simply awesome per-thread read throughput.

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