Hi hackers, I saw this today: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p648-tian.pdf
It describes the "LDSF" (largest-dependency-set-first) lock scheduling algorithm and related work, as an alternative to the FIFO scheduling used by PostgreSQL and most other RDBMSs. LDSF been implemented in MySQL 8. The TPC-C results shown are impressive. -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com
