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Patch #810

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Slim read/write locks on Windows

Added by Marco Eichelberg over 7 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Marco Eichelberg
Category:
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Target version:
-
Start date:
2018-01-29
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

Accesses to the data dictionary are protected by a critical section and a semaphore implemented in class OFReadWriteLock.
Since Windows Vista, Windows offers "Slim Reader/Writer Locks" (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa904937%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396) that offer better concurrency when there are parallel threads that only read the data dictionary.
The attached patch replaces the existing implementation with SRW locks, which, however, different unlock methods for read locks
and write locks.

The patch may also affect Android (via POSIX_INTERFACE_WITHOUT_RWLOCK) - this was not considered when developing the patch
and may require special handling.

Submitted 2018-01-24 by Christian Fremgen <>.

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dcmtk-3.6.2-SlimReaderWriterLock.patch (23.5 KB) dcmtk-3.6.2-SlimReaderWriterLock.patch Patch Marco Eichelberg, 2018-01-29 16:11
main.cpp (576 Bytes) main.cpp Test program that demonstrates the patch Marco Eichelberg, 2018-01-29 16:12
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