A distributed algorithm for deadlock detection and resolution

  • Authors:
  • Don P. Mitchell;Michael J. Merritt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

This paper presents two distributed algorithms for detecting and resolving deadlocks. By insuring that only one of the deadlock processes will detect it, the problem of resolving the deadlock is simplified. That process could simply abort itself. In one version of the algorithm, an arbitrary process detects deadlock; and in a second version, the process with the lowest priority detects deadlock.