Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Uenal Mutlu
Date : Thu May 19 2005 11:44 pm

"Markus Elfring" wrote
> > I've yet to see one generally usable. But I understand that such a generally usable
> > lock-free method cannot exist.
>
> Software libraries exist that can be used for basic data structures in key parts of an
> application to increase concurrent/parallel execution.
> The set of usable choices will grow for specific processor and operating systems in the
> (near) future.
.....
> Example:
> Did you read the thesis "Efficient and Practical Non-Blocking Data Structures"
> (http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~phs/phd.pdf, 1414 KB) by Håkan Sundell?
> This paper contains an analysis on scalability for more than a 2 CPU hardware that you can
> test your approach on.

Thanks, indeed a very interessting & promising paper; will read it soon fully.

> A few other developers are working on implementations for non-blocking synchronization
> that will make it possible to adjust the views and opinions that this topic seems to be
> "voodoo magic".

Nice to hear that. I myself had that feeling too. If things are better than my
initial thoughts were then I see no problem to take another look at this stuff.

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