PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT...PLEASE....

[Daniel Fetchinson]

> I know I'm tooooo late to ask you for help....but please help me out..I
> am really new to unix and dont know how to finish this assignment on
> time.....proff. said he will be using MOSS to detect whether I
> downloaded the code..please help me..
>
> email me : vaidehi.pawar at yahoo.co.in
>
> Assignment 1
> Processes, Inter-Process Communication, and Concurrency
> Due September 13th midnight
> Summary
> In
> this assignment, you will create two versions of a simple multi-process
> game : one without and another with inter-process synchronization. You
> will also measure the relative performance of the two versions of your
> multi-process game.
> Objectives
>
>     * Learn how to create and terminate processes.
>     * Learn use of inter-process communication using shared memory,
> semaphores, signals, etc.
>     * Learn the basic workings of CPU scheduling code in Linux.
>
> Part A: Multi-Process Game of Turns
>
> In
> this part, you are asked to write a simple program that takes two
> command-line arguments P and N. The main process creates P other child
> processes, waits for all of them to complete, and then exits. All the
> child processes form one logical ring among each other. (In rest of the
> description, the term "process" refers to a "child process".) For
> example, if the processes are numbered 1 to P, then
>
>     * The next neighbor of process 1 is process 2,
>     * The next neighbor of process i is process i+1 for all i < P , and
>     * The next neighbor of process P is process 1, which completes a ring
> among the processes.
>
> Assume
> that a shared integer variable, called turn, identifies the number of
> the processes whose turn it is at any instant. A second process-local
> variable in each process, called me, identifies the identity of each
> process (i.e. each process stores its own identity in a per-process
> local variable me). A third per-process local variable, called next,
> identifies the next process in the ring.
>
> The processes
> sequentially pass the turns among each other in the logical ring. When
> each process gets its turn, it increments another shared variable
> called counter. The pseudo-code within each process for passing turns
> might look something as follows. (Note: Replace turn and counter below
> with appropriate ways of accessing data within shared memory regions).
>
>     while(turn != me )
>         /* do nothing - just busy loop*/ ;
>
>     /* got my turn - increment counter */
>     counter = counter + 1;
>
>     /* give the turn to next process */
>     turn = next;
>
> The program terminates when the each process has received N turns.
>
> In the above description, several programming details have been omitted for
> you to figure out. This includes
>
>     * Creating P child processes from main process.
>     * Constructing the logical ring among child processes.
>           o Initializing each child process's identity in the me variable.
>           o Initializing each child process' next neighbor in the next
> variable.
>     * Initializing the shared memory region and the shared data values.
>     * Have the main process wait for child processes to complete N turns
> before exiting.
>
> Part B: More Efficient Game of Turns
>
> You
> might notice that the program you wrote in Part A is inefficient
> because each process busy loops till the CPU scheduler kicks it out
> (after its time-slice is over) and allows another process to execute
> and make progress. (Does the program in Part A have a race condition?
> Why or why not?)
>
> What we ideally want is that each process
> should be given control of the CPU only when it is that process' turn.
> Modify the program you wrote in Part A (using appropriate
> synchronization mechanisms) such that each process gets to run (i.e.,
> gets control of the CPU) only when it is that process's turn, and at no
> other time.
>
> Again, you would need to work out the programming details of how and where
> to use inter-process synchronization.
> Part C: Profiling the Game of Turns
>
> In
> this part, you are asked to write user-level profiling code in order to
> measure the performance of the two versions of programs you wrote in
> Part A and Part B. Use a combination of gettimeofday() system call and
> inter-process synchronization to measure (1) the average hand-over time
> between two consecutive processes in the ring and (b) the total
> execution time to complete N turns. Plot the measured values as graphs
> when varying number of processes P and number of turns N. Explain the
> results you obtain.
> Submission Guidelines
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Ms. Vaidehi Pawar

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Cheers,
Daniel
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