NDLI: Non-Blocking Synchronization and Memory Management

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Abstract	Non-blocking data structures offer high availability and strong progress guarantees. They are guaranteed to be available regardless of thread scheduling, including thread termination and indefinite delay. This guarantee is most useful in cases such as sharing between threads and signal handlers, systems where processes could be terminated asynchronously, and soft real-time applications such as media players. The inherent characteristics of non-blocking algorithms pose intricate problems that need to be solved to achieve the desired progress guarantees. Many of such problems are related to memory management, including dynamic memory allocation, the determination of the safety of reclaiming dynamic memory blocks, the ABA problem, and bounding memory use of non-blocking algorithms. This talk presents an overview of non-blocking synchronization and the memory management problems that arise in non-blocking algorithms and their solutions.
File Format	MP4
ISBN	9781450335270
DOI	10.1145/2742580.2742802
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-02-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Audio
Resource Type	Article

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Non-Blocking Synchronization and Memory Management