MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT

There is provided a memory, comprising: issuing an allocation operation for allocation of a region of a memory by a first process of a plurality of first processes executed in parallel on a first processor, sending a message to a second processor indicating the allocation of the region of the pool of the memory, issuing a free operation for release of the allocated region of the pool of the memory by a second process of a plurality of second processes executed in parallel on a second processor, and releasing, by the first processor, the allocated region of the pool of the memory as indicated in the free operation, wherein a same region of memory is allocated by the first process and released by the second process, wherein the first processes are concurrently attempting to issue the allocation operation and the second processes are concurrently attempting to issue the free operation.