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IPPS
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable Spin Locks for Multiprogrammed Systems
Synchronization primitives for large shared-memory multiprocessors need to minimize latency and contention. Software queue-based locks address these goals, but suffer if a process...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
HIPC
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Preemption Adaptivity in Time-Published Queue-Based Spin Locks
Abstract. The proliferation of multiprocessor servers and multithreaded applications has increased the demand for high-performance synchronization. Traditional scheduler-based lock...
Bijun He, William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott