Streamflow

This is the home of the Streamflow project, a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications.

Source Code

The current version has been developed for and tested on Linux, on x86, x86-64, ppc64 and ia64 platforms.
http://github.com/scotts/streamflow/

As a part of our evaluation of Streamflow, we implemented Maged Michael's lock-free allocator as described in Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation which appeared in PLDI 2004. Our implementation has been tested on Linux, on x86, ppc64 and ia64 platforms.
michael.tar.gz

Contributors

Scott Schneider
Christos Antonopoulos
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

Publications

Scott Schneider, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. Scalable Locality-Conscious Multithreaded Memory Allocation. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.