Memory allocation in a multithreaded environment

Details Memory allocation in a multithreaded environment Memory allocation in a multithreaded environment

1996-06-28

2000-05-02

Nguyen, Hiep T

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

711173, 711152, 707205, 709104, G06F 1206

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ABSTRACT:
A method of allocating memory in a multithreaded (parallel) computing environment in which threads running in parallel within a process are associated with one of a number of memory pools of a system memory. The method includes the steps of establishing memory pools in the system memory, mapping each thread to one of the memory pools; and, for each thread, dynamically allocating user memory blocks from the associated memory pool. The method allows any existing memory management malloc package to be converted to a multithreaded version so that multithreaded processes are run with greater efficiency.

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