How to emulate Persistent Memory

How to emulate Persistent Memory

Data allocated with PMDK is put to the virtual memory address space, and concrete ranges are relying on result of mmap(2) operation performed on the user defined files. Such files can exist on any storage media, however data consistency assurance embedded within PMDK requires frequent …

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C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 0)

C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 0)

Our goal for the C pmemobj library was to make a fully featured implementation of persistent memory programming model without modifying the compiler. It’s meant for authors of very low-level system software and language creators. It’s not particularly pretty nor easy to use. The amount …

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C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 1) - pmem resident variables

C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 1) - pmem resident variables

One of the biggest hurdles and error prone things about our C API is that the user has to manually keep track of modifications to the persistent memory resident variables while in a transaction. A special semi-transparent template property class has been implemented to automatically add variable …

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C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 2) - persistent smart pointer

C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 2) - persistent smart pointer

In our C API the programmer has to deal with custom pointers represented by the PMEMoid structure. Thanks to some macro magic we made it so that those PMEMoids are somewhat usable. C++ allows us to evolve this concept. pmem::obj::persistent_ptr Almost everyone who ever touched a C++ code knows the …

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C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 3) - persistent queue example

C++ bindings for libpmemobj (part 3) - persistent queue example

The best way to learn to code is usually by implementing an example. We are going to be creating a linked-list based queue data structure using the the pmem::obj::p and pmem::obj::persistent_ptr classes and libpmemobj C API. But first, a little bit of CS 101 :) Linked-list queue Queue is a …

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