This only affects RMO. This adds stricter semantics for critical section
serialization. In addition to this, asymmetric synchronization primitives will
now provide load ordering with respect to readers.
This also modifies locked operations to have acquire semantics
(they're there for elision predicates, and this doesn't impact them
in any way). There are several performance improvements included in this
as well (redundant fence was removed from days of wanting to support
Alpha).
John Wittrock has contributed a phase-fair reader-writer
lock implementation. These locks allow phase fairness
guarantees between readers and writers. This work includes
additional changes and clean-up.
Follow-up work is expected.
Thanks to John Wittrock for patches and Professor Gabriel
Parmer (http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~gparmer/) for advising.
Samy Al Bahra
Samy Al Bahra
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