Scaling Existing Lock-based Applications with Lock Elision

  • Authors:
  • Andi Kleen

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Corporation

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Performance
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Lock elision enables existing lock-based programs to achieve the performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization and fine-grain locking with minor software engineering effort.