Using huge address spaces to construct cooperative systems

Author

Inohara, Shigekazu ; Masuda, Takashi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

92

Abstract

An operating system-level mechanism for memory management that enables processes to freely share and transfer arbitrary data structures in both the primary and secondary storage is presented. By using wide address spaces provided by 64-b processors, the proposed system structures the address space of each process as a set of hierarchical ´regions´ of virtual memory pages. In order to avoid possible location conflicts among regions, the system restructures the hierarchy when regions are shared or transferred among processes

Keywords

cooperative systems; data structures; distributed processing; operating systems (computers); storage allocation; storage management; virtual storage; address spaces; cooperative systems; data sharing; data structures; data transfer; memory management; operating system-level mechanism; virtual memory pages; Buildings; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Cooperative systems; Data structures; File servers; Information science; Memory management; Operating systems; Tree data structures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1993. Proceedings. ISADS 93., International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kawasaki

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3125-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.1993.262718

Filename

262718