Scalable lock-free dynamic memory allocation

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 35-46

  Michael, Maged M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Async signal safe; Availability; Lock free; Malloc

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING PROCEDURES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MULTIPROCESSING PROGRAMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASYNC-SIGNAL-SAFE; DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION; LOCK FREE; MALLOC;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 8444252172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996841.996848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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