Pessimistic Software Lock-Elision

Read-write locks are one of the most prevalent lock forms in concurrent applications because they allow read accesses to locked code to proceed in parallel. However, they do not offer any parallelism between reads and writes. This paper introduces pessimistic lock-elision (PLE), a new approach for n...

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Main Authors: Afek, Yehuda (Author), Matveev, Alexander (Author), Shavit, Nir N. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2014-10-10T13:09:02Z.
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