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
>