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"aminer"  wrote in message news:kptjeo$tkt$1@dont-email.me...

> Hello,

> I have read the following paper:

> http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/papers/ppopp2013-rwlocks.pdf

> So as you have noticed they are using the same method that are using
> the Distributed RWLock by Dmitry Vyukov, so we have to change the
> "function GetCurrentProcessorNumber:long;" inside MSync library by 
> function that returns the current NUMA number, by doing this we will
> reduce coherence traffic and the distributed RWLock will be NUMA aware. 
> And that's easy to do.

Distribution aside for a moment...

Take a look at Dmitry Vyukov asymmetric rwmutex algorithm:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!original/comp.programming.threads/t9O4wI-co8Y/CIy9UAQ0rHoJ

This really kicks some serious as$!