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speculative_spin_rw_mutex

[mutex.speculative_spin_rw_mutex]

A speculative_spin_rw_mutex is a class that models the ReaderWriterMutex requirement, and for processors that support hardware transactional memory (such as Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX)) may be implemented in a way that allows non-contending changes to the protected data to proceed in parallel.

The speculative_spin_rw_mutex class is not fair and not recursive. The speculative_spin_rw_mutex class is like a spin_rw_mutex, but it may provide better throughput than non-speculative mutexes when the following conditions are met:

  • Running on a processor that supports hardware transactional memory.

  • Multiple threads can concurrently execute the critical section(s) protected by the mutex, mostly without conflicting.

Otherwise, it performs like a spin_rw_mutex, possibly with worse throughput.

For processors that support hardware transactional memory, speculative_spin_rw_mutex may be implemented in a way that

  • speculative readers and writers do not block each other

  • a non-speculative reader blocks writers but allows speculative readers

  • a non-speculative writer blocks all readers and writers

// Defined in header <tbb/spin_rw_mutex.h>

namespace tbb {
    class speculative_spin_rw_mutex {
    public:
        speculative_spin_rw_mutex() noexcept;
        ~speculative_spin_rw_mutex();

        speculative_spin_rw_mutex(const speculative_spin_rw_mutex&) = delete;
        speculative_spin_rw_mutex& operator=(const speculative_spin_rw_mutex&) = delete;

        class scoped_lock;

        static constexpr bool is_rw_mutex = true;
        static constexpr bool is_recursive_mutex = false;
        static constexpr bool is_fair_mutex = false;
    };
}

Member classes

class scoped_lock

Corresponding scoped_lock class. See the ReaderWriterMutex requirement.

Member functions

speculative_spin_rw_mutex()

Constructs speculative_spin_rw_mutex with unlocked state.

~speculative_spin_rw_mutex()

Destroys an unlocked speculative_spin_rw_mutex.

speculative_spin_mutex queuing_mutex