[gclist] DSM and GC

[Rafael Dueire Lins]

Dear Patrick,

I suggest you have a look at two articles of mine I quote below.

Regards,

Rafael

A Shared Memory Architecture for Parallel Cyclic Reference Counting,{\em
Microprocessing and Microprogramming}, vol 32:53-58, North-Holland, 1991. 

A Multi-Processor Shared Memory Architecture for Parallel CyclicReference
Counting, {\em Microprocessing and Microprogramming}, vol 35:563-568,
North-Holland, August/1992. 


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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Patrick Panke wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I'm working on a project at my university, and
> therefore have to implement a distributed garbage
> collection algorithm that collects objects in a
> shared memory environment.
> 
> Ideally it should have the following prperties:
> 
>  - collect most garbage fast and 
>    without expensive commonication
> 
>  - eventually collect all garbage
> 
>  - run concurrently to the mutators
> 
>  - do not use read/write locks on objects
> 
>  - collect unneeded replicas of objects
> 
> 
> The DSM will be using an invalidate protocoll.
> 
> Communication is assumed safe (TCP/IP with no
> crashing sites).
> 
> I couldn't find anything appropriate online so far.
> 
> Any tips, ideas, references ?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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