I found this illustration on his blog easier to follow: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/coarse-grained-locks-and-transactional-synchronization-

I found this illustration on his blog easier to follow: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/coarse-grained-locks-and-transactional-synchronization-explained/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/coarse-grai...