A fast mutual exclusion algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Leslie Lamport

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

A new solution to the mutual exclusion problem is presented that, in the absence of contention, requires only seven memory accesses. It assumes atomic reads and atomic writes to shared registers.