Efficient Lock Algorithm for Shared Objects in SMP Environments

Ogasawara Takeshi, Komatsu Hideaki, Nakatani Toshio

doi:10.11185/imt.2.154

Efficient Lock Algorithm for Shared Objects in SMP Environments

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Ogasawara Takeshi

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory Applied Computer Science Course, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Komatsu Hideaki

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Nakatani Toshio

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

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We propose a new algorithm that is effective for objects that are shared among threads but are not contended for in SMP environments. We can remove the overhead of the serialization between lock and other non-lock operations and avoid the latency of complex atomic operations in most cases. We established the safety of the algorithm by using a software tool called Spin. The experimental results from our benchmarking on an SMP machine using Intel Xeon processors revealed that our algorithm could significantly improve efficiency by 80% on average compared to using complex atomic instruction.