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2 | \chapter{Allocator} |
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4 | \newpage |
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5 | \paragraph{Design 1: Decentralized} |
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6 | Fixed number of heaps: shard the heap into N heaps each with a bump-area allocated from the sbrk area. |
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7 | Kernel threads (KT) are assigned to the N heaps. |
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8 | When KTs $\le$ N, the heaps are uncontented. |
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9 | When KTs $>$ N, the heaps are contented. |
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10 | By adjusting N, this approach reduces storage at the cost of speed due to contention. |
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11 | In all cases, a thread acquires/releases a lock, contented or uncontented. |
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12 | \begin{cquote} |
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13 | \centering |
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14 | \input{AllocDS1} |
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15 | \end{cquote} |
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16 | Problems: need to know when a KT is created and destroyed to know when to create/delete the KT's heap. |
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17 | On KT deletion, its heap freed-storage needs to be distributed somewhere. |
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19 | \paragraph{Design 2: Centralized} |
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21 | One heap, but lower bucket sizes are N-shared across KTs. |
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22 | This design leverages the fact that 95\% of allocation requests are less than 512 bytes and there are only 3--5 different request sizes. |
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23 | When KTs $\le$ N, the important bucket sizes are uncontented. |
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24 | When KTs $>$ N, the free buckets are contented. |
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25 | Therefore, threads are only contending for a small number of buckets, which are distributed among them to reduce contention. |
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26 | \begin{cquote} |
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27 | \centering |
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28 | \input{AllocDS2} |
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29 | \end{cquote} |
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30 | Problems: need to know when a kernel thread (KT) is created and destroyed to know when to assign a shared bucket-number. |
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31 | When no thread is assigned a bucket number, its free storage is unavailable. |
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32 | It is possible to use sharing and stealing techniques to share/find unused storage, when a free list is unused or empty. |
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