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Sandy Weisberger I don't care what the cards look like. I have been buying cards for many years at the local hobby shops in my area and I think that offering products on-line only is a slap in the face to the guys who own the hobby shops, the guys who are so important to helping keep this hobby alive. The tough economy has made it a rough going as it is and now Topps is doing things like this to cut them out of the equation entirely. Nice going Topps. Posted April 14, 2013 at 8:15 am | Permalink
Joe Cecil I dont see the big deal with why turkey red was online only. It is not a super premium product nor is it a huge hit driven release. A huge waste of time IMO. Posted April 14, 2013 at 3:32 pm | Permalink
George Evans I agree with Sandy. I have been dealing with one specific dealer for over nine years now. Now the dealer I purchase from might be cut out by Topps in there effort to increase there bottom line at his and his customers expense. I can imagine what it will be like having to deal with Topps when there is no dealer to act as a middle man. I think a lot of us know how long it takes to get a redemption card back from Topps and what "red tape' we have to go through even though we are the one who purchased the box that had the redemption card in it. I know one man who fought with Topps for nearly two years to get his Ian Kinsler autographed Redemption Card, think of it two years and that was with the help of the dealer he purchases his cards from. Think what it will be like if Topps cuts back to say 250 total Dealers Nationwide. Posted April 15, 2013 at 9:02 am | Permalink
Ed Welcome to the Future…..Sorry to say but the next generation doesn't visit card shops…(Only old cool dudes like us even know they exist). They shop online for everything…literally! Topps and Panini are both testing the water with this internet sales thing. But come on guys, this is the wave of the future, in fact its already here. They sell out product in minutes. Sounds like a good business decision to me. If I sat on either one of those Boards I would have asked years ago about how much money we could save both our customers and our bottom line by selling directly to our customers via the internet. Your right, your local card shop will fold, but what if prices went down 20% because there is no longer a middle man. Peace Posted April 15, 2013 at 10:04 am | Permalink
George Evans Ed, I think they tried doing something similar some 20 or more years ago. Although it was slightly different. The card companies at that time like Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck and others decided that if they were making a certain profit level, then if they doubled there production that there profit level might go up say four fold. Do you recall when the market got over saturated back in around 1993, that was when the companies started over producing along with that thing called a Base Ball Strike or Work Stoppage depending on which side you look at. In fact I still have a 1994 World Series Baseball that Upper Deck put in there boxes due to the strike that wiped out the World Series. George Posted April 15, 2013 at 12:03 pm | Permalink
Sandy Weisberger In response to Ed, this may be the future but I believe that the savings won't go toward making a better product. Maybe overly pessimistic but when companies look to cut costs (like cutting out the local dealer), more often than not, it's more to increase their bottom line than it is to deliver a better product. Buy like they said in the Godfather movie, "it's nothing personal, it's just business." Personally, a good part of what I enjoy about collecting the cards is the time spent at the local card shops with other collectors, which I admit probably does make me old school. Posted April 16, 2013 at 4:28 pm | Permalink
George Evans In response to Sandy. I totally agree with you. In my case however my local dealer went out of business a number of years ago. His health declined as he was getting much older. Some friends stepped in and ran the business for a while until his son started signing papers that his landlord sent. Bottom line, the Land Lord realized that he was no longer there, the lease expired and the land lord really wanted an increase in rent to at or above market level…hence no more store. There is a store a about 20 miles from where I live, but the Owner is just in it for extreme profits so I hardly ever go there. I know where this dealer gets his wax and I know what he pays for the wax, I don't mind him marking it up some but having it marked at double what he paid for it…no thanks. The main dealer that I deal with has a store about two hours and one state away from my residence, so I wait and deal with him when he does the shows nearly every Saturday in my area. This dealer takes care of his customers, including the dealer mentioned above. The dealer that I deal with is a Topps Direct Dealer and I am afraid that Topps will want to cut him out to increase there bottom line and like you stated with no improvement in there product. After all, for the most part, Topps has the exclusive MLBPA contract and by them trying to go direct only the prices only seem like they will go one way…up. George Posted April 17, 2013 at 4:12 pm | Permalink


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ABSTRACT: Feedback with carry shift registers (FCSRs) have been introduced first by Goresky and Klapper, particularly as an alternative to linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs). Similarly to LFSRs, FCSRs have an underlying algebraic structure that facilitates their analysis, and their output sequences have many desirable statistical properties. Besides their direct applications as pseudorandom number generators, they have proven useful as building blocks for stream ciphers, but an FCSR should never be used by itself as keystream generator. To ovoid this problem, Arnault an Berger proposed to use Filtred FCSR. Weakness related to the representation structure allowded an efficient attack developed by Hell and Johansson. In this paper, we propose a new stream cipher based on a novel conception of pseudorandom generators Vectorial FCSR (VFCSR). This configuration allows an efficient resistance the above attack.Information Security Applications - 11th International Workshop, WISA 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, August 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers; 01/2010
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De stichting OpenNMS Europa is opgericht door een onafhankelijke groep van OpenNMS-gebruikers als een organisatie zonder winstoogmerk om netwerkmanagement in het algemeen en het platform voor OpenNMS netwerkmanagement in het bijzonder te promoten.
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De OpenNMS Gebruikersconferentie is gepland voor de week van 11 maart 2013 in de universiteit van Fulda in Fulda, Duitsland. Volledige informatie over de conferentie en mogelijkheden voor sponsoring is beschikbaar op http://opennms.eu.
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Het project OpenNMS wordt ondersteund door de OpenNMS Group (www.opennms.com), die ook commerciële ondersteuning, services en training voor het OpenNMS platform biedt.
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US 7624246 B2 Abstract A method and system for allocating and de-allocating memory for threads of an application is provided. An allocation system provides a heap for tracking free tokens of memory that are available for allocation to threads of an application. A heap tracks collections of free tokens of the fixed token size. The allocation system receives memory requests from threads that specify an allocation type of allocate or de-allocate. When multiple memory requests are pending concurrently from multiple threads, then the allocation system attempts to combine memory requests of the same type and of the same token size that are received from different threads. One of the threads is responsible for updating the heap to effect the two memory requests. The allocation system combines multiple memory requests so that the heap need only be accessed once to allocate or de-allocate multiple tokens.
Claims(22) 1. A method in a computer system for allocating memory to threads of an application, the method comprising:
providing a heap for tracking free tokens of memory, the tokens having a fixed token size, the heap for tracking collections of free tokens of different collection sizes;
receiving memory requests from threads of the application, each memory request having a type of allocate or de-allocate; and
when memory requests are pending concurrently from multiple threads, combining memory requests of the same type; and
under control of one of the threads, updating the heap based on the combined memory request
so that the heap need be only updated once for a combination of memory requests.
2. The method of
determining whether the heap is currently being accessed by another thread; and
when it is determined that the heap is currently being accessed by another thread, continuing to combine memory requests of the same type until the heap can be updated.
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12. A computer for allocating memory to threads of an application, comprising:
a processor;
a memory; and
a memory allocator comprising:
a plurality of heaps for tracking free tokens of memory, each heap for handling tokens of a fixed token size and tracking collections of different collection sizes of free tokens of the fixed token size;
a combine all component that combines memory requests with memory requests that have not yet been completed, each memory request being from a different thread of an application; and
a combine component that combines memory requests of the same type and annihilates memory requests of different types.
13. The computer of
an allocate component that invokes the combine all component to further combine memory requests when the heap of the token size cannot be accessed; and
a de-allocate component that invokes the combine all component to further combine memory requests when the heap of the token size cannot be accessed.
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22. A computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for controlling a computer system for managing memory to threads of an application, by a method comprising:
providing a plurality of heap data structures for tracking free tokens of memory, each heap for handling tokens of a fixed token size and tracking collections of different collection sizes of free tokens of the fixed token size, each heap having a funnel data structure for tracking memory requests that may be combined;
receiving memory requests from threads of the application, each memory request having a type of allocate or de-allocate and a token size; and
when memory requests of the same token size are pending concurrently from multiple threads,
combining memory requests of the same type; and
under control of one of the threads,
attempting to access the heap for tokens of the token size;
when the attempt is successful, updating the heap based on the combined memory request; and
when the attempt is unsuccessful, continuing to combine memory requests tracked by the funnel data structure until the heap can be accessed
so that a heap need be only updated once for a combination of memory requests.
Description This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/728,533, filed on Oct. 20, 2005, and entitled �MAMA!� A MEMORY ALLOCATOR FOR MULTITHREADED ARCHITECURES,� which is incorporated by reference herein. Parallel computer architectures generally provide multiple processors that can each execute different tasks simultaneously. One such parallel computer architecture is referred to as a multithreaded architecture (MTA). The MTA supports not only multiple processors but also multiple streams executing simultaneously in each processor. The processors of an MTA computer are interconnected via an interconnection network. Each processor can communicate with every other processor through the interconnection network. Each MTA processor can execute multiple threads of execution simultaneously. Each thread of execution executes on one of the 128 streams supported by an MTA processor. Every clock time period, the processor selects a stream that is ready to execute and allows it to issue its next instruction. Instruction interpretation is pipelined by the processor, the network, and the memory. Thus, a new instruction from a different stream may be issued in each time period without interfering with other instructions that are in the pipeline. When an instruction finishes, the stream to which it belongs becomes ready to execute the next instruction. Each instruction may contain up to three operations (i.e., a memory reference operation, an arithmetic operation, and a control operation) that are executed simultaneously. The state of a stream includes one 64-bit Stream Status Word (�SSW�), 32 64-bit General Registers (�R0-R31�), and eight 32-bit Target Registers (�T0-T7�). Each MTA processor has 128 sets of SSWs, of general registers, and of target registers. Thus, the state of each stream is immediately accessible by the processor without the need to reload registers when an instruction of a stream is to be executed. Each MTA processor supports as many as 16 active protection domains that define the program memory, data memory, and number of streams allocated to the computations using that processor. Each executing stream is assigned to a protection domain, but which domain (or which processor, for that matter) is assigned need not be known by the user program. The MTA divides memory into program memory, which contains the instructions that form the program, and data memory, which contains the data of the program. The MTA uses a program mapping system and a data mapping system to map addresses used by the program to physical addresses in memory. The mapping systems use a program page map and a data segment map. The entries of the data segment map and program page map specify the location of the segment in physical memory along with the level of privilege needed to access the segment. Each memory location in an MTA computer has four access state bits in addition to a 64-bit value. These access state bits allow the hardware to implement several useful modifications to the usual semantics of memory reference. These access state bits are two data trap bits, one full/empty bit, and one forward bit. The two data trap bits allow for application-specific lightweight traps, the forward bit implements invisible indirect addressing, and the full/empty bit is used for lightweight synchronization. The behavior of these access state bits can be overridden by a corresponding set of bits in the pointer value used to access the memory. The two data trap bits in the access state are independent of each other and are available for use, for example, by a language implementer. If a trap bit is set in a memory location, then an exception will be raised whenever that location is accessed if the trap bit is not disabled in the pointer. If the corresponding trap bit in the pointer is not disabled, then a trap will occur. The forward bit implements a kind of �invisible indirection.� Unlike normal indirection, forwarding is controlled by both the pointer and the location pointed to. If the forward bit is set in the memory location and forwarding is not disabled in the pointer, the value found in the location is interpreted as a pointer to the target of the memory reference rather than the target itself. Dereferencing continues until either the pointer found in the memory location disables forwarding or the addressed location has its forward bit cleared. The full/empty bit supports synchronization behavior of memory references. The synchronization behavior can be controlled by the full/empty control bits of a pointer or of a load or store operation. The four values for the full/empty control bits are shown below. The full/empty bit may be used to implement arbitrary indivisible memory operations. The MTA also provides a single operation that supports extremely brief mutual exclusion during �integer add to memory.� The FETCH_ADD operation loads the value from a memory location and stores the sum of that value and another value back into the memory location. Conventional computer systems provide memory allocation techniques that allow programs or applications to allocate and de-allocate (i.e., free) memory dynamically. To allocate a block of memory, a program invokes a memory allocation routine (e.g., �malloc�) passing the size of the requested block of memory. The memory allocation routine locates a free block of memory, which is usually stored in a �heap,� marks the block as being allocated, and returns to the program a pointer to the allocated block of memory. The program can then use the pointer to store data in the block of memory. When the program no longer needs that block of memory, the program invokes a memory free routine (e.g., �free�) passing a pointer to the block of memory. The memory free routine marks the block as free so that it can be allocated to a subsequent request. A program executing on a single-threaded processor may have multiple threads that execute concurrently, but not simultaneously. Each of these threads may request that memory be allocated or freed. Conventional memory allocation techniques, however, do not support the concurrent execution of memory allocation or memory free routines. If such routines were executed concurrently, a thread may find the state of the data structures used when allocating and freeing memory to be inconsistent because another thread is in the process of updating the state. Conventional memory allocation techniques may use a conventional locking mechanism (e.g., a semaphore) to prevent the concurrent execution of the memory allocation and memory free routines. Thus, the locked-out threads will wait until another thread completes its memory allocation. Such waiting may be acceptable in a single-threaded processor environment because only one thread can be executing at any one time, so the processor may be always kept busy. Such waiting, however, is unacceptable in a multithreaded processor environment because many streams of the processor may be left idle waiting for a thread executing on another stream to complete its memory allocation request. Conventional memory allocation routines are typically optimized to allocate memory based on the expected allocation patterns of the programs. For example, if it is expected that the programs will allocate many small blocks of memory, the memory allocation routines are optimized to allocate small blocks of memory efficiently. If, however, a program requests that a large block of memory be allocated, it may be very inefficient to service the request because, for example, it may be necessary to coalesce many free small blocks of memory into a single block of memory large enough to satisfy the request. Conversely, a conventional memory allocation routine may be optimized to allocate large blocks of memory efficiently. In such a case, it may be very efficient to allocate large blocks of memory but inefficient either computationally or in memory usage to allocate many small blocks. Memory allocation from a shared and unpartitioned global address space to support parallel applications is a fundamental need of shared-memory parallel computers. In the absence of faster processors, one way to increase application performance is by increasing concurrency. As a result of increased concurrency, future applications will likely have an ever-increasing number of threads allocating memory concurrently. Even where applications themselves do not perform a great deal of dynamic memory allocation, the mechanisms supporting parallelization such as stack allocation and thread creation do perform such memory allocation. Hoard is an allocator that attempts to attain scalable and memory-efficient allocator performance as described in Berger, E., McKinley, K., Blumofe, R., and Wilson, P., �Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications,� Proceedings of ASPLOS '00, 2000. Unfortunately, Hoard cannot be scaled up without impractical expenditure of space. Hoard instantiates a number (e.g., two) of �local� allocators per processor. In addition, Hoard instantiates a global pool managed by a global allocator. There is an affinity of allocators to processors in that each processor first tries to allocate from one of its local allocators; if that allocator is empty, it tries to refill from the global allocator; if that fails, it allocates a new block from the operating system. According to Hoard, each heap is specific to a range of request sizes, which implies internal fragmentation at a rate proportional to the ratio of successive ranges. This internal fragmentation seems to be acceptable in practice. Requests larger than half of an implementation specific block-size are directed to the operating system. Each heap manages its list of blocks, never touching blocks belonging to other heaps. However, when its blocks are sparsely utilized, heaps move an unused or nearly unused block into the global pool. Once a block in the global pool is completely unused, it becomes available to all heaps. A lock-free approach is described in Michael, M., �Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation,� Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Washington, D.C., Jun. 9-11, 2004, that is similar to Hoard in that it also uses repeated heaps of super blocks in proportion to the required concurrency backed by a global pool implemented as a shared FIFO of super blocks. Again, larger requests are directed to the operating system. Its lock-free approach, however, provides robustness against deadlock should threads fail to progress. Memory allocation for the MTA was initially implemented in a similar spirit to Hoard; that is, concurrency is by virtue of repeated data structures using various forms of locking to ensure atomicity. This implementation, however, may suffer contention under allocation surges, suggesting that it would not scale with system size. These parallel memory allocators rely on heap repetition to support concurrency. When individual heaps are exhausted, they can be refilled from the next level in a small hierarchy. In some instances, the first level is the heap itself, the second is a global pool or FIFO, and the third is the OS. A method and system for allocating and de-allocating memory for threads of an application is provided. In one embodiment, an allocation system provides a heap for tracking free tokens of memory that are available for allocation to threads of an application. A token is a contiguous area of memory that can be assigned to a thread of an application. A heap tracks tokens of a fixed token size. For example, a heap may track tokens of size 128. The allocation system may include multiple heaps for tracking tokens that are of different sizes. For example, the allocation system may implement 5 heaps with token sizes 4, 8, 16, 128, and 512. The number of heaps implemented by an allocation system and their token sizes can vary depending on the requirements of the application. A heap tracks collections of free tokens of the fixed token size. For example, if a heap originally has a collection of 256 tokens and 32 tokens have been allocated to a thread, then the heap may have a collection of 128 free tokens, a collection of 64 free tokens, and a collection of 32 free tokens. If the thread de-allocates the 32 tokens, the allocation system may combine the collections of free tokens and the 32 de-allocated tokens into a collection of 256 free tokens. The allocation system receives memory requests from threads that specify an allocation type of allocate or de-allocate. When multiple memory requests are pending concurrently from multiple threads, then the allocation system attempts to combine memory requests of the same type and of the same token size that are received from different threads. For example, if the allocation system receives two requests to de-allocate a token of token size 16, the allocation system combines or merges the requests. The allocation system combines the requests by updating the request of one of the threads, referred to as the responsible or parent thread, to identify that two tokens of size 16 are to be de-allocated. The allocation system then releases the other thread so that it can continue processing. The responsible thread is responsible for updating the heap to effect the de-allocation of the two tokens. After updating the heap, the responsible thread is then released to continue processing. As another example, if the allocation system receives two requests to allocate a token of size 16, the allocation system combines the memory allocate requests into a single request by updating the memory request of the responsible thread. The responsible thread is responsible for updating the heap to effect the allocation of the two tokens. The responsible thread provides one of the allocated tokens to the other thread and both threads are then released to continue processing. In this way, the allocation system combines multiple memory requests so that the heap (which may use a semaphore to synchronize access) need only be accessed once to allocate or de-allocate multiple tokens. In one embodiment, the allocation system executing within a thread that has issued a memory request starts by looking for concurrent memory requests (owned by other threads) for the same heap. A concurrent memory request is one that has been issued by another thread, has not yet been completed, and is for the same token size. If the thread finds a concurrent memory request, the thread, which becomes the responsible thread, combines the memory requests. The responsible thread becomes responsible for handling both memory requests. The behavior of the other thread depends on the type of the request. If the request is to allocate, the other thread waits for the result from the responsible thread. If the request is to de-allocate, the other thread returns to the routine that issued the memory request, so that the other thread can continue its processing. The responsible thread can repeatedly combine concurrent memory requests until an aggregate memory request of some arbitrary size s>0 is built. One of the threads that issued one of the memory requests of the aggregate memory request is the only responsible thread. The responsible thread attempts to lock the heap to complete the request, while the other s−1 threads either wait or return. If the responsible thread is unable to lock the heap, it attempts to continue combining memory requests with its aggregate memory request. The responsible thread may remain responsible for handling the aggregate memory request, or another thread may become the responsible thread. If the responsible thread is able to lock the heap, it removes or inserts a collection of tokens into the heap and then unlocks the heap. If the memory request was to allocate, the other threads, which are waiting, are provided their tokens and are released to continue their processing. Once a waiting thread receives a collection of tokens from its responsible thread, it splits the collection into a token and the remaining tokens of the collection and provides a collection of the remaining tokens to the other threads for which it is responsible. When a thread receives a single token, the allocation system returns that token to the application, which can continue its processing. If the memory request was to de-allocate, the responsible thread is released to continue its processing. The other threads were already released. If the responsible thread is again unable to lock the heap, it continues attempting to combine additional memory requests. In one embodiment, the allocation system may combine an allocation request with a de-allocate request or a collection of allocate requests with a collection of de-allocate requests. The allocation system combines the memory requests of different types by providing a token to be de-allocated to a thread requesting the allocation of a token. The thread that is responsible for handling allocate memory requests is provided a collection of tokens that are being de-allocated and distributes the tokens to the other threads whose allocation requests were combined. In this way, the allocation system can satisfy memory requests without ever accessing the heap. In one embodiment, the allocation system uses a pennant data structure, rather than a linked list, to track the free tokens of a heap. A pennant data structure is a special form of a binary tree. The allocation system can efficiently insert and remove such binary trees from a heap. A pennant of rank 0 is a single node. A pennant of rank r>0 has a top node of the pennant data structure that points to a single child node that is the root node of a complete binary tree of height r−1. A pennant of rank r has 2r nodes. The allocation system implements the pennant data structure by storing two pointers (L and R) in each node. The allocation system merges two pennants of rank r into a pennant of rank r+1 by setting the top node of a first pennant to point to the top node of the second pennant and the previous top node of the second pennant to point to the child node of the first pennant. The previous top node of the second pennant will thus point to its original child node and the previous child node of the top node of the first pennant to form a complete binary tree. The allocation system splits a pennant of rank r+1 into two pennants of rank r using the reverse process. The allocation system stores a collection of tokens of the same token size in a heap using a pennant data structure. A heap of size K supports insertion and removal of pennants of tokens of rank r, where 0<=r<K. A heap includes an array of K pointers p[0:K]. If the integer portion of n/2r is odd where n is the number of tokens in the heap, then p[r] points to a pennant of rank r. Otherwise, p[r] is nil. The allocation system may select K to accommodate the total memory available to the application. A heap also contains a funnel data structure with layers (described below) and a lock to implement synchronized access to the heap. The allocation system inserts a pennant P of tokens of rank r into a heap as follows. If p[r] is nil, the allocation system sets p[r] to point to pennant P and completes. Otherwise, the allocation system merges pennant P with the pennant p[r] and then attempts to insert the merged pennant, which has a rank of r+1, at p[r+1]. This process of merging and attempting insertion continues until a pointer of the array corresponding to the rank of the merged pennant is nil. The allocation system remove a pennant of rank r from the heap by first finding the smallest s>=r such that p[s] is not nil. If there is no such pennant in the heap, the allocation system allocates a new block of memory from the operating system. When the allocation system finds a p[s] that is not nil, it sets p[s] to nil. If the pennant P previously pointed to by p[s] has the number of tokens represented by the combined memory request, the allocation system returns the tokens of pennant P and completes. Otherwise, the allocation system splits pennant P and stores a pointer to one of the split pennants in p[s−1]. The allocation system continues splitting and storing pennants until the pennant with the requested number of tokens is reached. As described above, if the heap does not contain any pennant of rank s>=r, the allocation system requests memory from the operating system. The allocation system requests a contiguous block of memory large enough to hold 2r tokens. The allocation system could upon receiving the block convert it to a complete pennant data structure by setting the pointers in each token or node of the pennant. Because the number of tokens may be large, the thread performing the conversion may be delayed an unacceptably long time. To avoid this delay, the allocation system defers the converting of the newly allocated block to a complete pennant by distributing the conversion process over subsequent memory requests. The allocation system allows the complete binary trees of a pennant to be represented implicitly as contiguous blocks of 2l−1 un-initialized tokens, for l<=r. For example, in The allocation system combines memory requests A and B of two different threads to reduce the contention for heap access. The allocation system finds a pair of requests using an atomic operation, such as the fetch-and-add operation of the MTA. The allocation system, executing under control of a thread, increments a shared counter to get a unique index for the memory request of the thread. The allocation system uses the index to define a parent/child relationship between memory requests and the parent's thread becomes responsible for finding and handling the child memory requests by combining the memory requests. After finding its child memory request (described below) and combining them, the responsible thread reads the counter again to see if its parent memory request has arrived (i.e., the counter advanced past the parent's index). If the parent memory request has not arrived, the responsible thread tries to lock the heap so that it can effect the memory request. If the responsible thread cannot lock the heap, it is because another thread is accessing the heap and the thread continues attempting to combine memory requests. The allocation system identifies memory requests for combining using a funnel data structure. In one embodiment, the allocation system represents a memory request with four fields: free, rank, R, and L. In the case of a de-allocate request, free is a pointer that points to a token (or pennant of tokens) to be de-allocated. In the case of an allocate request, free is nil. Rank contains the rank of the pennant pointed to by free or the rank of combined allocate requests. R and L are pointers that implement a pennant of memory requests. A memory request may also contain a synchronization field, result, for waking waiting threads and storing a pointer to the allocated token. In one embodiment, the waiting is represented by a wait function that waits for another thread to call either the function success or the function failure on the memory request. The function wait returns true, if the thread was woken using the function success, or false if it was woken using the function failure. The allocation system uses a funnel data structure to find pairs of memory requests to combine. The funnel data structure consists of F layers indexed by the rank of the memory request to be merged. The layer r matches requests of rank r to combine them into requests of rank r+1. Each layer contains a counter and an array (�comm�) of pointers to memory requests. The allocation system initializes the counter to zero. The allocation system uses a fetch-and-increment operation to assign a sequence of integers to memory requests combining in a layer. The allocation system identifies child memory requests of a parent memory request using a binomial tree model. A binomial tree Bk is an ordered tree whose root has k children where the i-th child is a binomial tree of order k-i. Bk has 2k nodes and all of its sub-trees are also binomial trees Bi for some i<=k. The allocation system uses a left-to-right postorder numbering starting from zero to assign integers to nodes of Bk. The allocation system does not explicitly store these binomial trees; it uses them only to define parent-child relationships between memory requests. The height of a node n is equal to the number of consecutive 1s from the right of its binary representation and also to the number of its children. To compute the parent of a node n, the allocation system changes the lowest order zero bit in its binary representation to one. When a memory request is received, the allocation system attempts to combine each memory request with its children in right-to-left order and then attempts to combine with its parent if it combined with all its children. Since the numbering is postorder, the children memory requests always arrive before their parent and a child can check if its parent has arrived by reading the number of requests that have arrived at the funnel layer. If the parent does not arrive in time, the thread tries to lock the heap to perform its operation. However, the thread leaves a message (in an array of the funnel layer) that it cannot wait to merge, should the parent arrive in the future. In one embodiment, the allocation system represents this combining as follows. The thread that wants to combine its memory request increments the counter of an appropriate layer and gets the previous value a of the counter. The thread then reads pointers to requests stored in the comm array of the funnel, indexed by a's children in decreasing order, and combines with them. If it successfully combines with all its children, it has a request of rank r>=0. The thread then checks the counter again and determines whether its parent has arrived. It also stores the address of its request into comm[a] for the parent to pick up and waits for the result. There are three cases where memory requests cannot combine with parents: 1. one or more children cannot merge (i.e., comm[child]=nil); 2. the memory request was annihilated with one of its children; and 3. its parent has not arrived yet. In all of these cases, the allocation system sets comm[a] to nil after sending failure to all of the remaining waiting children. The function returns a status of true, if the thread still owns its request, and of false, if it was combined into another request. To allocate a token, the allocation system repeatedly attempts to combine memory requests in the appropriate layers of the funnel. If an attempt fails, it means that the request was already completed by another thread, which filled the result field of the memory request. If an attempt succeeds, the thread attempts to lock the heap to remove tokens from it. If it encounters contention, the thread continues combining. Once the thread removes a collection of tokens, it repeatedly splits the collections and sends parts to children of the aggregate memory, which wakes up the corresponding threads. To de-allocate a token, a thread attempts to combine its memory request with other memory requests. The thread attempts to insert the tokens in the heap by first attempting to lock the heap. If the attempt at locking is successful, the thread effects the de-allocation. Otherwise, the thread attempts to combine its memory request with other memory requests. From the foregoing, it will be appreciated that specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, but that various modifications may be made without deviating from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not limited except as by the appended claims. Patent Citations
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Sabine Parish hunter takes down first deer ever w/Photo
Kacey Meshell, of Noble, shot her first deer ever on Nov. 23 and started out big with this 11-pointer near Converse in Sabine Parish. The buck green-scored 147 6/8 inches Boone and Crockett, with a 19 1 2-inch inside spread. Comment?
The morning Seth Fontenot killed 15-year-old Austin Rivault, he pulled the trigger of his 9 mm Beretta while wearing only underwear and red Converse sneakers. Fontenot was tired of being a victim , fed up with having his truck and his mom's car broken into at their Lafayette home. Comment?
Court filings reveal new details in fatal shooting of Lafayette teen
The morning Seth Fontenot killed 15-year-old Austin Rivault, he pulled the trigger of his 9 mm Beretta wearing only underwear and red Converse sneakers. Fontenot was tired of being a victim , fed up with having his truck and his mom's car broken into at their Lafayette home. Comment?
Motorcyclist dies in DeSoto Parish crash w/Photo
Motorcyclist dies in DeSoto Parish crash A 57-year-old Converse man was killed in a motorcycle crash. Comment?
Motorcycle accident in DeSoto Parish claims life of Converse man w/Photo
A Converse man was killed Saturday evening during a motorcycle crash in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana State Police said. (NOLA.com A news release from Louisiana State Police Troop G said the accident in northwest Louisiana occurred at 9:14 p.m. on US Highway 171 near Ranchland Drive. Comment?
Motorcyclist killed after being ejected in DeSoto Parish wreck w/Photo
... 171 at Ranchland Drive. The driver of a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle, identified as 57-year-old Robert Walton of Converse, La., was traveling south on Highway 171 when a 2007 Toyota Camry pulled into his path, causing his motorcycle to strike the ... Comment?
Gameday Fashion: New Orleans Saints vs Minnesota Vikings w/Photo
... Victoria make comfort look cool on gameday. Both have long-sleeved tees paired with their favorite denim. By adding Converse and Keds, they also give their overall look a sporty and effortless feel. Krystal: As a local boutique owner, Sheri has an ... Comment?
Theater to offer a night of gospel music w/Photo
... 2012, and the album of the same name won best album for 2013. He is pastor of Noble Baptist Church and lives in Converse with wife Anne. Turner is a well-known pianist and gospel singer in this area and was the subject of a PBS special on gospel ... Comment?
Northwestern State tandem seeks collegiate fishing national title w/Photo
... while winning a state championship at St. Mary's, while Cooper was an academic all-state recipient who helped lead Converse to the state baseball tournament as a senior in 2012. The duo quickly formed a bond, and their relationship has gotten ... Comment?
Mansfield man killed after falling from tree w/Photo
... when he fell out of a tree he was working to cut down. The incident happened in the 16600 block of Highway 171 in Converse, La. Friday around 1 p.m. According to the DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office, the harness that secured 56-year-old Ronnie Meshell ... Comment?
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Posted: March 31, 2010
C.A.O. International Inc.'s best-rated cigar brand is getting a new size. The C.A.O. La Traviata Animado was scheduled to arrive at C.A.O.'s Nashville, Tennessee headquarters last week.
The new smoke is a traditional corona gorda size, measuring 5 5/8 inches long by 46 ring gauge. Once considered quite a fat cigar, the 46 ring gauge now seems almost slim in modern day cigar circles.
"This 5 5/8 by 46 size is one that is near and dear to my heart as it happens to be my favorite cigar size, the Cuban Punch Punch," said C.A.O.'s Jon Huber, director of lifestyle marketing for the company. "In fact, I lobbied hard to have this size in the originalLa Traviata lineup when it launched last summer, but got outvoted."
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This was actually the first Jersey Project that I began, but kept it aside because I dint like the outcome. Now when I was finally ready to get back to it, I took it apart n started all over again. I originally made a tiered top with ruffles all over the front, but since it made the already fat me look fatter, I thought of either losing some weight or altering the pattern so as to look less fat(?). Now (dint lose much weight but altered the pattern) I decreased ruffled area which was from side to side to concentrated around center-front, for this I added side panels and it helped to conceal the seams of the ruffles also. The cap sleeves are made from left over ruffles which is why the edges are serged. It was depressing before but now, I love it! And yay, its raining again!!
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Sep 5, 2013, 09.09 AMby liliv-1
It's very cute and romantic!
Sep 5, 2013, 10.59 AMby nishavinod2009
thank you :-)
Sep 3, 2013, 12.14 AMby rita61
Nice recovery. Nice colour.
Sep 3, 2013, 05.03 AMby nishavinod2009
Sep 2, 2013, 10.39 PMby Mary Athey
It's lovely on you, love the colour and the ruffles x
Sep 3, 2013, 05.03 AMby nishavinod2009
Thank you!
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