Shared-memory is best known as an effective IPC method, moreover, it is a powerful design pattern in server architecture with some notable features:
- process restart without memory data lost
- achieve modularity with decoupled processes
- keep service HA even with failure in one process
- almost no performance cost for inter process communication
Many popular high-volume internet services (such as QQ server) have benefit from usage of shared-memory techniques. However it is not as easy as using in-process libraries (such as STL) when working with OS shm interface, because you have to manage memory pages directly. So what this project is valuable is that it offers a collection of shared-memory containers with familiar interface for you, and also with the following features:
- provide a unified interface for different underlying shm mechanism (SYSV, SYSV_HugeTLB, POSIX, ANON, HEAP)
- provide useful container such as hash-map, fifo-queue, broadcast-queue(sync-buf), etc
- efficient C++11 lock-free implemenation aimed to offer extreme high performance
- designed for robust and fast, sufficient unit-tests, production ready and verified
- compact and clean code, only consist of C++ headers with no external dependency
See document of classes in namespace shmc for detail.
The library consists only C++ headers, so importing it in your project is very easy (just add -I dir). It also provides a bazel BUILD file so just set deps on it if you are using bazel.
If you want to build unit-tests, install bazel and gtestx first.
You can find document online here: SHM-Container Documentation
Also you can generate doc from source: 1) install cldoc 2) cd doc; make