Re: Concurrent free-lock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Concurrent free-lock
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Msg-id 1106611627.1780.32.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Concurrent free-lock  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu>)
Responses Re: Concurrent free-lock  ("Min Xu (Hsu)" <xu@cs.wisc.edu>)
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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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