13.10 Additional Reading

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Most operating systems books spend some time on synchronization and use of standard synchronization mechanisms such as mutex locks, condition variables and read-write locks. The review article "Concepts and notations for concurrent programming," by Andrews and Schneider [3] gives an excellent overview of much of the classical work on synchronization. "Interrupts as threads" by Kleiman and Eykholt [63] discusses some interesting aspects of the interaction of threads and interrupts in the kernel. An extensive review of monitors can be found in "Monitor classification," by Buhr et al. [17]. The signal and wait operations of monitors are higher-level implementations of the mutex-conditional variable combination. The Solaris Multithreaded Programming Guide [109], while dealing primarily with Solaris threads, contains some interesting examples of synchronization. Finally, the article "Schedule-conscious synchronization" by Kontothanassis et al. [65] discusses implementation of mutex locks, read-write locks and barriers in a multiprocessor environment.

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Unix Systems Programming
UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads
ISBN: 0130424110
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 274

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