Title :
Using huge address spaces to construct cooperative systems
Author :
Inohara, Shigekazu ; Masuda, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan
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;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1993. Proceedings. ISADS 93., International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kawasaki
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3125-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.1993.262718
