A novel O(1) parallel deadlock detection algorithm and architecture for multi-unit resource systems

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel O(1) parallel deadlock detection approach for multi-unit resource system-on-a-chips (SoCs), inspired by Kimpsilas method in O(1) detection as well as Shiupsilas method in parallel processing. Our contributions are (i) the first O(1) hardware deadlock detection and (ii) O(min(m, n)) preparation, both for multi-unit resource systems, where m and n are the number of processes and resources, respectively. O(min(m, n)), previously O(m times n), is achieved by performing all the searches for sink nodes for each and every resource in parallel in hardware over a matrix representing resource allocations as well as other auxiliary matrices. Our experiments demonstrate that deadlock detection always takes two clock cycles.