Atomic Snapshots in O (n log n) Operations

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Attiya;Ophir Rachman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The atomic snapshot object is an important primitive used for the design and verification of wait-free algorithms in shared-memory distributed systems. A snapshot object is a shared data structure partitioned into segments. Processors can either update an individual segment or instantaneously scan all segments of the object. This paper presents an implementation of an atomic snapshot object in which each high-level operation (scan or update) requires O(n log n) low-level operations on atomic read/write registers.