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From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au, wli@holomorphy.com, chrisw@osdl.org,
	jbarnes@engr.sgi.com, kiran@in.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Lock free fd lookup
Date: 17 Jul 2004 15:17:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090091875.1232.456.camel@cube> (raw)

Keith Owens writes:

> Writer vs. writer starvation on NUMA is a lot harder.  I don't know
> of any algorithm that handles lists with lots of concurrent updates
> and also scales well on large cpus, unless the underlying hardware
> is fair in its handling of exclusive cache lines.

How about MCS (Mellor-Crummey and Scott) locks?

Linux code:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/linux/patches/?patch_id=218

Something supposedly better:
http://user.it.uu.se/~zoranr/rh_lock/

Scott's list of 11 scalable synchronization algorithms:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/synchronization/pseudocode/ss.html

Scott's collection of papers and so on:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/synchronization/

Simply asking Scott might be a wise move. He'd likely know of anything
else that might fit the requirements. That's scott at cs.rochester.edu



             reply	other threads:[~2004-07-17 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-17 19:17 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2004-07-29  0:14 ` [RFC] Lock free fd lookup William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-17  8:50 Manfred Spraul
2004-07-17  9:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14  4:53 [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14  4:56 ` [RFC] Lock free fd lookup Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14 15:17   ` Chris Wright
2004-07-15 14:22     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:10       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-15 16:22         ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:34         ` Chris Wright
2004-07-16  5:38           ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-16  6:27       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  0:55         ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  1:19           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:12             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  2:34               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:28             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  3:16               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17 13:48     ` Peter Zijlstra

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