[ZOOKEEPER-1114] Concurrent primitives library - barrier

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: recipes
• Labels: gsoc2010

Environment

GNU/ Debian
java 1.6.0_21
zookeeper trunk (svn info shows Revision: 1141788)

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chia-Hung Lin
• Created: 01/Jul/11 04:22
• Updated: 01/Jul/11 04:23

Description

The patch is provide according to wiki[1]. The source follows the description at tutorial[2].

However, from the mailing list it shows that this version is not optimized[3]. So is there any chance anyone can point out which algorithm may provide better result for this construct? I am happy to work on it, though it may take some time.

[1]. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/SoC2010Ideas#Concurrent_Primitives_Library
[2]. http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/current/zookeeperTutorial.html#sc_barriers
[3]. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/zookeeper-user/201102.mbox/[e-mail]%3E