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Reader-writer Locks

Reader–Writer Locks is a synchronization primitive that belongs to the class of mutual exclusion mechanisms and specifically allows concurrent access to a shared resource by multiple readers or exclusive access by a single writer, thereby distinguishing it from simpler locks by supporting differentiated access modes based on the type of operation.

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Variants

Mrsw LocksMultiple-reader Single-writer Locks

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User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update

Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, S. A. Stern et al. · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 2011 · 141 citations

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Scalable reader-writer synchronization for shared-memory multiprocessors

John Mellor‐Crummey, Michael L. Scott · 1991 · 128 citations · Full text

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Mostly-optimistic concurrency control for highly contended dynamic workloads on a thousand cores

Tianzheng Wang, Hideaki Kimura · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2016 · 113 citations

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TLRW

Dave Dice, Nir Shavit · 2010 · 98 citations

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Scheduler-conscious synchronization

Leonidas Kontothanassis, Robert W. Wisniewski, Michael L. Scott · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 1997 · 98 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. ML
    Michael L. Scott

    University of Rochester, United States

    4 publications · 294 citations

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  2. JH
    James H. Anderson

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    3 publications · 81 citations

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  3. DD
    Dave Dice

    Oracle (United States), United States

    2 publications · 179 citations

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  4. RW
    Robert W. Wisniewski

    IBM (United States), United States

    2 publications · 121 citations

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  5. NS
    Nir Shavit

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    2 publications · 179 citations

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Institutions

26

  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    162 citations

  2. University of Rochester

    Rochester, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    423 citations

  3. Oracle (United States)

    Austin, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    567 citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    214 citations

  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    289 citations

  6. AT&T (United States)

    Bedminster, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    60 citations

  7. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    128 citations

  8. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

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Venues

  1. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review

    PER · 1 publications · 11 citations

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  2. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

    ENTCS · 1 publications · 12 citations

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  3. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

    TOCS · 1 publications · 98 citations

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  4. USENIX Annual Technical Conference

    Conference · 1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    TPDS · 1 publications · 141 citations

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