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one dequeuer.
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In single-threaded shepherd mode, the following schedulers are available:
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nemesis, lifo, mutexfifo, mtsfifo
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nemesis
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In multi-threaded shepherd mode, the following schedulers are available:
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sherwood
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sherwood, distrib
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Brief descriptions of each option follow:
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design from the MPICH folks. It is extremely efficient, as long as FIFO is
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the scheduling order that you want.
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Lifo: This is a lock-free LIFO stack. It's nearly identical to the LIFO stack
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used in the qt_mpool code. It's quite efficient, as long as LIFO is the
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scheduling order that you want.
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MutexFifo: This is a mutex-based FIFO queue. This only exists for compatibility
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with systems that do not have sufficient atomic-operation support for
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lock-free queue designs.
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MTSFifo: This is a lock-free FIFO queue based on the queue by Maged Michael of
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IBM. Unlike the NEMESIS queue, it is safe for multiple dequeuer's. The
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implementation is essentially identical to the implementation of
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qt_lfqueue. This was the default queue implementation before qthreads 1.6.
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Sherwood: This is a scheduler policy designed by the MAESTRO project centered
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around double-ended queue. This design uses mutexes to protect those
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queues. The basic idea is that there is one queue per shepherd, shared
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work-stealing between shepherds, a FIFO scheduling order is used. See
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http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1988796.1988804 for details.
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Nottingham: This is also a scheduler policy designed by the MAESTRO project,
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but it is officially EXPERIMENTAL. It is a modification of the Sherwood
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scheduler, designed to use a mostly-lock-free algorithm involving a
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high-performance reader/writer lock. Worker threads within a single
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shepherd act as "readers" and manipulate the deque in a lock-free fashion.
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Stealing acts as a "writer": only one thread can steal at a time, and
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worker threads cannot manipulate the queue while that is happening.

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