Neil,
Here is some pretty good info on lock-free structures... I'm pretty sure
I tested their code in a multithreaded high-concurrency environment and
experienced the problems I was discussing.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/lock-free/
Neil Conway wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:35 -0700, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
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>>Lock free data structures are cool... but not really applicable to
>>databases. They have a high maintenance overhead, severe complexity,
>>and will fail when there are many concurrent inserts/deletes to the
>>structure.
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>Can you elaborate on when they would fail, and why?
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>It might be worth considering lock-free data structures for certain
>parts of the backend, but I'm skeptical they would be much of a win over
>locking most of the time.
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>-Neil
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