Outline for April 18, 2022

Reading: text, §30, 33
Assignment: Lab Exercise and Extra Credit 1, due Apr 18


  1. Remote procedure calls (RPC)
  2. Common concurrency problems
    1. Atomicity violation bugs
    2. Order violation bugs
  3. Livelock
  4. Deadlock
    1. Resource allocation
    2. Policies to handle deadlock
      1. Ignore it
      2. Prevention
      3. Avoidance
      4. Detection and recovery
  5. Deadlock prevention
    1. Mutual exclusion
    2. No preemption
    3. Circular wait, resource waiting
    4. Hold and wait, partial allocation

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