Parallel programming in the 21st century is no longer focused solely on science, research, and grand-challenge projects. And this is all to the good, because it means that parallel programming is becoming an engineering discipline. Therefore, as befits an engineering discipline, this book examines specific parallel-programming tasks and describes how to approach them. In some surprisingly common cases, these tasks can be automated.
This book is written in the hope that presenting the engineering discipline underlying successful parallel-programming projects will free a new generation of parallel hackers from the need to slowly and painstakingly reinvent old wheels, enabling them to instead focus their energy and creativity on new frontiers. However, what you get from this book will be determined by what you put into it. It is hoped that simply reading this book will be helpful, and that working the Quick Quizzes will be even more helpful. However, the best results come from applying the techniques taught in this book to real-life problems. As always, practice makes perfect.
But no matter how you approach it, we sincerely hope that parallel programming brings you at least as much fun, excitement, and challenge that it has brought to us!
Table of contents
- How To Use This Book
- Introduction
- Hardware and its Habits
- Tools of the Trade
- Counting
- Partitioning and Synchronization Design
- Locking
- Data Ownership
- Deferred Processing
- Data Structures
- Validation
- Formal Verification
- Putting It All Together
- Advanced Synchronization
- Advanced Synchronization: Memory Ordering
- Ease of Use
- Conflicting Visions of the Future
- Looking Forward and Back
- Important Questions
- "Toy" RCU Implementations
- Why Memory Barriers?
- Style Guide
- Answers to Quick Quizzes
Pages : | 601 |
Size : | 11.7 MB |
Downloads: | 106 |
Created: | 2022-02-03 |
License: | CC BY-SA |
Author(s): | Paul E. McKenney |
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