Hello,
My new invention of a Scalable RWLock that works accross processes and
threads is here, and now it works on both Windows and Linux..
Please download my source code and take a look at how i am making it
work across processes by using FNV1a hash on both process ID and thread
ID, FNV1a has a good dispersion, and FNV1a hash permits also my RWLock
to be scalable.
You can download it from my website here:
https://sites.google.com/site/scalable68/scalable-rwlock-that-works-accross-processes-and-threads
Description:
This is my invention of a fast, and scalable and starvation-free and
fair and lightweight Multiple-Readers-Exclusive-Writer Lock called
LW_RWLockX, it works accross processes and threads.
The parameters of the constructor are: first parameter is the name of
the scalable RWLock that to be used accross processes, if the name is
empty, it will only be used accross threads. The second parameter is the
size of the array of the readers, so if the size of the array is equal
to the number of parallel readers, so it will be scalable, but if the
number of readers are greater than the size of the array , you will
start to have contention. The third parameter is the size of the array
of my scalable Lock that is called AMLock, the number of threads can go
beyond the size of the array of the scalable AMLock, please look at the
source code of my scalable algorithms to understand.
I have also used my following implementation of FNV1a hash function to
make my new variants of RWLocks scalable (since FNV1a is a hash
algorithm that has good dispersion):
function FNV1aHash(key:int64): UInt64;
var
i: Integer;
key1:uint64;
const
FNV_offset_basis: UInt64 = 14695981039346656037;
FNV_prime: UInt64 = 1099511628211;
begin
//FNV-1a hash
Result := FNV_offset_basis;
for i := 1 to 8 do
begin
key1:=(key shr ((i-1)*8)) and $00000000000000ff;
Result := (Result xor key1) * FNV_prime;
end;
end;
- Platform: Windows, Unix and Linux on x86
Required FPC switches: -O3 -Sd
-Sd for delphi mode....
Required Delphi switches: -$H+ -DDelphi
For Delphi XE-XE7 and Delphi tokyo use the -DXE switch
You can configure it as follows from inside defines.inc file:
{$DEFINE CPU32} and {$DEFINE Windows32} for 32 bit systems
{$DEFINE CPU64} and {$DEFINE Windows64} for 64 bit systems
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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