Notes: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/notes/l-rpc.txt

Video: https://youtu.be/oZR76REwSyA

Prep:

• [x] Golang & it’s RPC package

  Go’s RPC Package

Why Go?

• support for threads/rpc
• gc
• type safe

Thread Of Execution

Threads from same address space share memory

start (green) thread with go keyword, can exit, stop, resume

Why Threads?

• Express concurrency with threads, IO concurrency
• Multi core parallellism

Challenges

• Race condition
  • overcome by avoid sharing
  • use locks, race detector from Go (sharing)
• Coordination
  • Channels or conditional variables (no sharing)