GcLock: write lock - #28

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gclock-write-lock

Commits on Jul 25, 2013

Introduced a boolean flag to GcLock to control defer execution
Mathieu Stefani
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Removed unused RCU source files from directory tree
Mathieu Stefani
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Merge branch 'master' into gclock-defer-write
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1fa0ec7

Commits on Jul 26, 2013

Replaced rcu_dereference_sym call by plain std::atomic.
Mathieu Stefani
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2d011f0

Commits on Aug 2, 2013

Implemented speculative Gc. The speculative unlock version does not guarantee that once it's done, the Gc is unlocked.
Mathieu Stefani
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467cce6

Commits on Aug 5, 2013

Merge branch 'master' into gclock-speculative-experiment
Mathieu Stefani
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5754e0f

Commits on Aug 7, 2013

Refactored TLS stuff
Mathieu Stefani
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1b57d9e

Commits on Aug 16, 2013

Merge branch 'master' into gclock-write-lock
Mathieu Stefani
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GcLock: can now dissociate read-side from write-side critical sections. This allows us to block writes when needed
Mathieu Stefani
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c6cfcd6

Commits on Aug 19, 2013

Merge branch 'master' into gclock-write-lock
Mathieu Stefani
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b9d25f5

Commits on Aug 22, 2013

Made some refinement to the GcLock. Also added a guard against infinite spinning
Mathieu Stefani
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03cd5e2

Commits on Aug 26, 2013

Calling ML::do_abort before throwing in GCLOCK_SPINCHECK macro. This is useful if we can't use catch throw in gdb
Mathieu Stefani
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Using AND mask rather than SHR to check the stop bit
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Throwing an exception when the CAS fails in unlockWrite
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Moved write-side critical section implementation in source file
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Removed the double-check. We don't need it if we check after reading the old value
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