Spin Locks for Multiprocessor systems

Implementation of various spin locks to ensure mutual exlusion among threads.

Benchmarked performance on Intel® Xeon(R) Gold 5220R CPU @ 2.20GHz × 48 (24 Cores with Intel Hyper-Threading)

Implemented Locks

Mutual Exlusion of N processes (N >= 2)

• Filter Lock (Generalized Peterson)
• Lamport's Bakery Algorithm
• Peterson's Tournament (Binary Tree Structure)

Test and Set Locks

• TAS Lock
• TTAS Lock

Queue Locks

• CLH Lock
• MCS Lock
• HemLock (Oracle)

Benchmark

Measured scalability performance of locks using a simple Counter. Each data point is averaged over 10 runs.

Implementation

• Java: openjdk version "11.0.22"
• Apache Ant for building the project
• Python scripts to automate data collection and performance analysis

References and Papers

Lamport's bakery: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361082.361093

Hemlock: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03863

Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy & Nir Shavit