brucej@verdix.com (Bruce Jones) (02/02/91)
In a previous posting I promised to provide some references for spin locks, and here they are. All three are well worth reading. title = The Performance of Spin Lock Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors author = Thomas E. Anderson published = IEEE Transactions on Parrell and Distributed Systems Vol. 1 No. 1 date = January 1990 title = Synchronization Algorithms for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors author = Gary Graunke and Shreekant Thakkar published = IEEE Computer date = June 1990 title = An Implementation of Real-Time Thread Synchronization author = Mark Heuser published = 1990 Summer USENIX date = August 1990 -- brucej ------------------------------ Bruce Jones Verdix Corporation brucej@verdix.com