The Repeat Offender Problem: A Mechanism for Supporting Dynamic-Sized, Lock-Free Data Structures

  • Authors:
  • Maurice Herlihy;Victor Luchangco;Mark Moir

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DISC '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We define the Repeat Offender Problem (ROP). Elsewhere, we have presented the first dynamic-sized, lock-free data structures that can free memory to any standard memory allocator--even after thread failures--without requiring special support from the operating system, the memory allocator, or the hardware. These results depend on a solution to the ROP problem. Here we present the first solution to the ROP problem and its correctness proof. Our solution is implementable in most modern shared memory multiprocessors.