操作系统精髓与设计原理英文pptChapter05.pptVIP

Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization Chapter 5 Concurrency Concurency arises in Multiple applications at the same time: Multiprogramming Structured applications: Application can be a set of concurrent processes Operating system structure: Operating systems are often implemented as a set of processes or threads Difficulties of Concurrency Sharing of global resources if two processes make use of the shared variable, then the order of access is critical Operating system managing the allocation of resources optimally may lead to a deadlock Difficult to locate programming errors result