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Quote: use MP-RCS for restartable critical sessions and processor-specific threads without locking; uses upcalls to restart interrupted critical sections

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Topic:
lock-free concurrency
Topic:
critical regions
Group:
memory management
Topic:
managing shared memory

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This paper introduces Multi-Processor Restartable Critical Sections, or … to safely manipulate CPU-specific data, such as malloc … when preemption or migration has occurred. The upcall … LFMalloc (Lock-Free Malloc). LFMalloc is scalable, has extremely … LFMalloc is often 10 times faster than Hoard, … [p. 270] unlike Hoard, LFMalloc needs only one heap … [instead of one heap per thread] …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: implemented lock-free malloc (LFMalloc) with MP-RCS; one heap per CPU, low latency, scalable, memory and cache efficient

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