Supporting Lock-Free Composition of Concurrent Data Objects
Magazine article, 2010

Lock-free data objects offer several advantages over their blocking counterparts, such as being immune to deadlocks and convoying and, more importantly, being highly concurrent. But they share a common disadvantage in that the operations they provide are difficult to compose into larger atomic operations while still guaranteeing lock-freedom. We present a lock-free methodology for composing highly concurrent linearizable objects together by unifying their linearization points. This makes it possible to relatively easily introduce atomic lock-free move operations to a wide range of concurrent objects. Experimental evaluation has shown that the operations originally supported by the data objects keep their performance behavior under our methodology.

Algorithms

composition

lock-free

Experimentation

data structures

Author

Daniel Cederman

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Philippas Tsigas

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

07308566 (ISSN)

Vol. 45 5 339-340

Subject Categories

Computer Science

DOI

10.1145/1837853.1693503

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10/8/2017