A space- and time-efficient local-spin spin lock. (Q1853104)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1856442
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    A space- and time-efficient local-spin spin lock.
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1856442

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      A space- and time-efficient local-spin spin lock. (English)
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      21 January 2003
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      A simple code transformation is presented that reduces the space complexity of Yang and Anderson's local-spin mutual exclusion algorithm. In both the original and the transformed algorithm, only atomic read and write instructions are used; each process generates \(\Theta(\log N)\) remote memory references per lock request, where \(N\) is the number of processes. The transformed algorithm uses \(\Theta(N)\) distinct variables, which is clearly optimal.
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      Mutual exclusion
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      Local spinning
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      Read/write atomicity
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      Shared-memory systems
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      Space complexity
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      Algorithms
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