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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Libc locks documentation
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:38:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5iBZYx8=8rh67DBDMjeFP7ADPeYxKet_rNcxTYW2GJNHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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If you look for "condition variables" for event notification,
you'll find relevant material, such as this paper
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/Mesa.pdf
which has a few references in it too. There's a little evolutionary history
of them somewhere.

On 24 March 2016 at 19:56, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:

> Hi, I'm a bit ignorant but I cannot recognise the algorithms in qlock.c.
>
> Where I can find more documentation about them? Any paper I can read?
>
> For example the rsleep/rwakeup always look a bit magic in its coupling
> with qlocks. I'd really like to know more about these algorithms, but given
> their use of rendezvous I can't find anything related.
>
> Can you provide me some references?
>
> Giacomo
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-24 19:56 Giacomo Tesio
2016-03-25 16:38 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2016-03-25 19:47   ` Giacomo Tesio

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