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For programmers, system architects, and technical programmer managers. Providing an overview of the Solaris and POSIX multithreading architectures, this book explains threads at a level that is completely accessible to programmers and system architects with no previous knowledge of threads. Covers the business and technical benefits of threaded programs, along with discussions of third party software that is threaded, pointing out the benefits.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Concepts. Background: Traditional Operating Systems. What Is a Thread? Kernel Interaction. System Calls. Signals. Synchronization. Scheduling. The Value of Using Threads. Parallelism. Throughput. Responsiveness. Communications. System Resources. Distributed Objects. Same Binary for Uniprocessors and Multiprocessors. Program Structure. Single Source for Multiple Platforms. What Kind of Programs to Thread? Inherently MT Programs. Not Obviously MT Programs. Automatic Threading. Programs Not to Thread. What About Shared Memory? Threads Standards. Performance. Solaris 2. NFS. SPECfp. PAR93. Dakota Scientific Software, Inc.. MARC Analysis Inc.. Delphax and Uniq Inc. Adobe. Facet Decision Systems, Inc.. The ImagiNation Network. Visual Numerics. Vantage Analysis Systems, A Viewlogic Company. Landmark Graphics. University of Houston. Geophysical Development Corporation. InfoGraphix. Technologies Incorporated. Scitex. Western Geographical. 3. Foundations. Implementation vs. Specification. Thread Libraries. The Process Structure. Lightweight Processes. Threads and LWPs. Solaris Multithreaded Model. System Calls. Signals. Don't Use Signal Handlers! Per-Thread Timers. 4. Scheduling. Different Models of Kernel Scheduling. Threads Are Not Always User- level Entities. Thread Scheduling. Thread Scheduling Details. Context Switching. Preemption. How Many LWPs? Bound Threads and Real-time LWPs. Binding LWPs to Processors. When Should You Care About Scheduling? Thread Creation and Destruction. Returning Status and Memory. That's Not a Bug, That's a Feature! Exiting the Process. Cancellation. 5. Synchronization. Synchronization Issues. Memory Model. Critical Sections. Lock Your Global Variables! Synchronization Variables. Mutexes. Reader/Writer Locks. Condition Variables. Semaphores. Barriers. Event Semaphores. OS/2 Critical Sections. Spin Locks. Adaptive Locks. Cross-process Synchronization Variables. Synchronization Variable Initialization and Destruction. Synchronization Problems. Deadlocks. Race Conditions. Recovering from Deadlocks. Priority Inversion. FIFO Mutexes. Thread-specific Data. Thread Local Storage. Global Variables, Constants, and Cheating. Comparing the Four Libraries. 6. Operating System Issues. The Solaris Threads Library. Solaris Multithreaded Kernel. Concurrency vs. Parallelism. Solaris Symmetric Multiprocessing. Kernel Scheduling. Are Libraries Safe? Async Safety. New Semantics for System Calls. Forking New Processes. Executing a New Program. The New System Call sigwait(2). The Solaris Operating Environment. SVR4 and SPEC 1170 Compliant. Real-Time, Fully Preemptable Kernel. SMP. Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules. Auto-Configuration. Dynamically Loadable, Shared Memory Modules. Memory-Mapped Files. Optimized Swap Space. Transport-Layer Interfaces. Cache File System and Auto File System. Interactive Scheduling Class. In-kernel rlogin/telnet. Wabi and MAE. Network Information Service Plus. CDE. Project DOE. Multiple Hardware Architectures. Solaris Threads Debugging Interface. Comparisons of Different Implementations. 7. POSIX Threads (pthreads). Pthreads Introduction. Attribute Objects. Threads and Attribute Objects. Synchronization Variables and Attribute Objects. Cancellation. Thread Scheduling. Moving Between the Two APIs. 8. Programming Tools. LockLint. LoopTool. SPARCworks Debugger. Thread Analyzer. Examples of Using the Tools. Example One: Threading the Mandelbrot Program. Example Two: Checking a Program with LockLint. Example Three: Parallelizing Loops with LoopTool. Example Four: Using the SPARCworks Debugger. For More Information. 9. Programming With Threads. Global Variables (errno). Static Local Variables. Synchronizing Threads. Single-Lock Strategy. Reentrance. Avoiding Deadlock. Scheduling Problems. Locking Guidelines. Following Some Basic Guidelines. Creating Threads. Thread Concurrency. Bound Threads. 10. Examples. Using thr_create() and thr_join(). Producer/Consumer. Matrix Multiplication. Threads and Windows. Socket Server. Using Many Threads. Real- time Thread. POSIX Cancellation. Deadlock. Software Race Condition. Signal Handler. Interprocess Synchronization. Arrays. Appendices. A. Answers. B. Solaris Signal Implementation. C. Threads on the Net. Threads on the World Wide Web. The SPILT Package for Solaris/POSIX Compatibility. Threads Newsgroup. Code Examples. The Authors on the Net. D. Timings. E. Common Bugs. Failure to Check Return Values for Errors. Using errno Without Checking the Return Value. Not Joining on Nondetached Threads. Failure to Verify that Library Calls Are MT Safe. Insufficient Swap Space. Creating Excessive LWPs. Forgetting to Include the -D_REENTRANT Flag. Using Spin Locks. Depending upon Scheduling Order. Using errno for Threads Library Functions. Not Recognizing Shared Data. F. Compile and Debug Specifics. Compiling a Multithreaded Application. Using libthread. Debugging Multithreaded Programs. Using adb. Using dbx. G. Application Program Interface. Condition Functions. Mutex Functions. Reader/Writer Lock Functions. Semaphore Functions. Thread Functions. H. Pthreads API (POSIX 1003.1c). Condition Functions. Condition Attribute Functions. Mutex Functions. Mutex Attribute Functions. Pthread Functions. Pthread Attribute Functions. Semaphore Functions. Glossary. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780134436982
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: A Guide to Multithreaded Programming
  • Width: 177 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0134436989
  • Publisher Date: 13 Nov 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 507 gr


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