Computer Architecture: A quantitative approach - Cap4 - Section 5
1. Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism Synchronization: The Basics “ Synchronization mechanisms are typically built with user-level software routines that rely on hardware-supplied synchronization instructions.” Hennessy and Patterson
8. Thank you! Author: Prof. Sergio Takeo, Marcelo Arbore. Bibliography: Patterson, D. A.; Hennessy, J. L. Computer Architecture: A quantitative Approach, 4 th Ed. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. “ Synchronization mechanisms are typically built with user-level software routines that rely on hardware-supplied synchronization instructions.” Hennessy and Patterson