* Jeff Davis: > Does this happen to be based on some academic research? I don't > necessarily expect it to be; just thought I'd ask.
Paul E. McKenney's thesis contains a few references. It's called "asymmetrical reader-writer locking" there, and Ingo Molnar implemented this as "brlock" in Linux 2.4. The earliest citation seems to be W.C. Hsiesh, W. E. Weihl, "Scalable reader-writer locks for parallel systems.", MIT-LCS-TR-521, published in 1991. -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
