Re: Concurrent free-lock

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu>
Cc: Pailloncy Jean-Gerard <jg(at)rilk(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Concurrent free-lock
Date: 2005-01-25 00:07:07
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On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:50 -0700, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> Here is some pretty good info on lock-free structures... I'm pretty sure
> I tested their code in a multithreaded high-concurrency environment and
> experienced the problems I was discussing.

Fair enough, but my hope would be that those problems were the result of
bugs in the implementation rather than some fundamental property of
lock-free data structures. A concurrency control mechanism that falls
over under concurrent access sounds a little broken, no?

-Neil

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