Barrier Synchronization (Part 2/2)
Part 1 of barrier synchronization covers my notes on the first couple types of synchronization barriers including the naive centralized barrier and the slightly...
Part 1 of barrier synchronization covers my notes on the first couple types of synchronization barriers including the naive centralized barrier and the slightly...
As mentioned previously, there are different types of synchronization primitives that us operating system designers offer. If as an application designer you ne...
What’s the deal with a sense reversing barrier? Even after watching the lectures on the topic, I was still confused as to how a single flag could toggle b...
In part 1 of synchronization, I talked about the more naive spin locks and other naive approaches that offer only marginally better performance by adding delays...
I broke down the synchronization topic into two parts and this will cover material up to and including the array based queuing lock. I’ll follow up with p...
You need to take away the following two themes for shared memory machine model: Difference and relationship between cache coherence (dealt with in hardware) and...
The operating system maintains a per process data structure called a page table, creating a protection domain and hardware address space: another virtualization...
As system designers, our goal is to design a “black box” system that create an illusion that our users have full and independent access to the under...