| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Min Xu (Hsu)" <xu(at)cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu>, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard <jg(at)rilk(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Concurrent free-lock |
| Date: | 2005-01-26 07:45:11 |
| Message-ID: | 1106725511.31592.270.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:30 +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > The one factor which stands out for me from this is that Keir Fraser's
> > and Tim Harris' algorithms are available as *code*, which additionally
> > are covered by a licence which appears to be an MIT/BSD variant licence.
>
> If you're referring to their "Lock-free library", that is licensed under
> the GPL.
Maybe, but the one we want is not on the GPL.
This is the code that is recommended in the summary of lock-free
methods:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/lock-free/
libstm-v1.tar.gz
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Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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