Re: [9fans] Libc locks documentation

[Giacomo Tesio]

Thanks Charles!

Giacomo

2016-03-25 17:38 GMT+01:00 Charles Forsyth :

> If you look for "condition variables" for event notification,
> you'll find relevant material, such as this paper
> https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/Mesa.pdf
> which has a few references in it too. There's a little evolutionary
> history of them somewhere.
>
> On 24 March 2016 at 19:56, Giacomo Tesio  wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm a bit ignorant but I cannot recognise the algorithms in qlock.c.
>>
>> Where I can find more documentation about them? Any paper I can read?
>>
>> For example the rsleep/rwakeup always look a bit magic in its coupling
>> with qlocks. I'd really like to know more about these algorithms, but given
>> their use of rendezvous I can't find anything related.
>>
>> Can you provide me some references?
>>
>> Giacomo
>>
>
>

Re: [9fans] Libc locks documentation

[Charles Forsyth]

If you look for "condition variables" for event notification,
you'll find relevant material, such as this paper
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/Mesa.pdf
which has a few references in it too. There's a little evolutionary history
of them somewhere.

On 24 March 2016 at 19:56, Giacomo Tesio  wrote:

> Hi, I'm a bit ignorant but I cannot recognise the algorithms in qlock.c.
>
> Where I can find more documentation about them? Any paper I can read?
>
> For example the rsleep/rwakeup always look a bit magic in its coupling
> with qlocks. I'd really like to know more about these algorithms, but given
> their use of rendezvous I can't find anything related.
>
> Can you provide me some references?
>
> Giacomo
>