Brief announcement: Hyaline fast and transparent lock-free memory reclamation

Ruslan Nikolaev, Binoy Ravindran

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Abstract

We present a new lock-free safe memory reclamation algorithm, Hyaline, which is fast, scalable, and transparent to the underlying data structures. Hyaline easily handles virtually unbounded number of threads that can be created and deleted dynamically, while retaining O(1) reclamation cost. We also extend Hyaline to avoid situations where stalled threads prevent others from reclaiming newly allocated objects, a common problem with epoch-based reclamation. Our evaluation reveals that Hyaline's throughput is high - it steadily outperformed other reclamation schemes by >10% in one test and yielded even higher gains in oversubscribed scenarios.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPODC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages419-421
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362177
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 16 2019
Event38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: Jul 29 2019Aug 2 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

Conference38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period7/29/198/2/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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