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Dynamic memory work-stealing

US7779222B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJul 22, 2005
Grant dateAug 17, 2010
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Expiry dateOct 23, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/5016
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A dynamic memory work-stealing technique involves the implementation of a deque as a doubly-linked list of nodes. All, or almost all, of the nodes are memory structures that may be dynamically allocated and freed from a shared node pool accessible to a plurality of processes. When a process has exhausted its local memory resources, the process may “steal” memory resources from another process that has available memory resources.

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