#rw-lock #mutex #distributed #mutex-lock #redis

rlock

An easy-to-use Redis-backed lock library providing both async and sync Mutex, RwLock, and others

9 releases

Uses new Rust 2024

0.0.9 Jan 12, 2026
0.0.8 Oct 28, 2025
0.0.7 Sep 30, 2025

#710 in Concurrency

MIT license

46KB
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RLock (Redis Lock)

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It is an easy-to-use Redis-backed lock library providing both async and sync Mutex, RwLock, and others.

Examples

use tokio::task::JoinSet;
use rlock::async_lock::RLock;

static mut COUNTER: u32 = 0;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let rlock = RLock::new("redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0").await.unwrap();

    async fn counter_increase(rlock: RLock) {
        let lock = rlock.acquire_mutex("lock").await.unwrap();

        // ----- critical section -----

        unsafe { COUNTER += 1 };

        // ----------------------------

        drop(lock);
    }

    let mut tasks = JoinSet::new();

    for _ in 0..1000 {
        tasks.spawn(counter_increase(rlock.clone()));
    }

    tasks.join_all().await;

    assert_eq!(1000, unsafe { COUNTER });

    rlock.shutdown().await;
}

Roadmap / TODO

  • Asynchronous mutex lock
  • Synchronous mutex lock
  • Asynchronous read-write lock
  • Synchronous read-write lock

Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/rlock

Documentation

https://docs.rs/rlock

License

MIT

Dependencies

~0–13MB
~87K SLoC