... Using Compare-and-Swap. by John Valois. Speaker's Name: Talk Title: ... Lock-Free Structures & Memory Management Techniques for linked list, dictionary and tree. ...
Lock-free approaches scale (with the number of processors) and avoid deadlock issues. ... no spinning. progress guaranteed under preemption. Conclusion (mine) ...
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-20), San Diego, ... snoopy scheme described in ISCA paper, but directory scheme described in TR. Design ...
Case Example: Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) Everquest 2 ... Lock / Wait Free Data Structures. Used in graphics pipelines and media ...
if atomicCAS(&q.data[l beg], task, NIL) != task then. restart. if lbeg mod x == 0 then. atomicCAS(&q.beg, oldbeg, lbeg) return task. function ENQUEUE(q, task) ...