linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks, v2

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Date:	Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:56:07 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, robclark@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks, v2

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> Also, is there anything in CS literature that comes close to this? I'd
> think the DBMS people would have something similar with their
> transactional systems. What do they call it?

I've looked around a bit and in dbms row-locking land this seems to be
called the wound-wait deadlock avoidance algorithm. It's the same
approach where if you encounter an older ticket (there called
transaction timestamp) you drop all locked rows and retry (or abort)
the transaction. If you encounter a newer ticket when trying to grab a
lock simply do a blocking wait. So ticket/reservation in Maartens
patches is the analog of timestamp/transaction.
-Daniel
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