I came across the concept of the "Producer-Consumer Problem" in an operating system by Silberschatz . I would like to know in which areas of Computer Science or any real time critical application (or any areas) is "Producer-Consumer Problem" implemented .
It is used for synchronization of concurrently running processes. A very typical application is message passing between applications which happens all the time in today's multi-processing operating systems.
E.g. consider printing of documents. You can print from several applications, i.e. multiple producers can create printing "messages" that are enqueued by a printer spooler and later consumed by a printer. Many kinds of shared access to resources are producer consumer problems.
In real-time critical applications with multi-tasking there also may be also some kind of events that are passed from one task to another which requires synchonization mechanisms to avoid race conditions, especially in event-triggered systems. E.g. a embedded real-time system may receive a message from the CAN-bus (producer), which one or multiple tasks (consumer) may be waiting for.
It is used for synchronization of concurrently running processes. A very typical application is message passing between applications which happens all the time in today's multi-processing operating systems.
E.g. consider printing of documents. You can print from several applications, i.e. multiple producers can create printing "messages" that are enqueued by a printer spooler and later consumed by a printer. Many kinds of shared access to resources are producer consumer problems.
In real-time critical applications with multi-tasking there also may be also some kind of events that are passed from one task to another which requires synchonization mechanisms to avoid race conditions, especially in event-triggered systems. E.g. a embedded real-time system may receive a message from the CAN-bus (producer), which one or multiple tasks (consumer) may be waiting for.
I think nearly everywhere when talking about parallel programming. Producer_Consumer is key model for threads programming, especially for the Pool of Threads model.
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