A General Resource Allocation Synchronization Problem

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  • ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: We introduce a new synchronization problem called GRASP. We show that this problem is very general, in that it can provide solutions with strong properties to a wide range of previously-studied and new problems. We present a shared-memory solution to this problem that is based on a new solution to the Dining Philosophers problem with constant failure locality. We use the powerful tool of wait-free transactions to simplify our solution without restricting concurrency.