如何理解静态一致性?

How to understand Quiescent Consistency?

我正在阅读'The Art of Multiprocessor Programming'。现在卡在第三章了,因为不明白Quiescent的概念Consistency.Can你举个例子解释一下什么是Quiescent Consistency?请尽量说清楚!

In distributed programming, there is an approach to describe data structure behavior known as quiescent consistency. There is a number of consistency conditions, sequential consistency, linearizability and others. These conditions describe how an object behaves when there are several threads calling its methods.

A data structure possesses quiescent consistency if it is consistent between its states of quiescence, i.e. when there are no methods currently in progress. As soon as a quiescently consistent structure has no operations pending (i.e. reaches the quiescence), we may be sure that the executions of methods before this state and after this state is never interpositioned.

An execution is quiescently consistent if the method calls can be correctly arranged retaining the mutual order of calls separated by quiescence, a period of time where no method is being called in any thread.

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