Modern locking

Most multi-threaded software uses locking. Lock optimization traditionally has aimed to reduce lock contention, that is make the critical regions smaller. In optimized software, this often results in a lot of very small critical regions, protected by many locks. Each critical region does only a little work, before releasing the lock and potentially letting some other CPU access the same data.

software.intel.com · May 02, 13 by Tony Thomas

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