System and method for providing cache-aware lightweight producer consumer queues

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of operation of a multiprocessor system, the method comprising:

• determining via a first processor of the system if advancing a first variable of a buffer from a first location in the buffer to a second location in the buffer would make the first variable equal to a second variable, the first variable and the second variable being processor local variables;
• when determining indicates that advancing the first variable from the first location to the second location would not make the first variable equal to the second variable, performing steps of:
• storing requested data to the buffer at a pointer specified by the first variable;
• advancing the first variable to the second location in the buffer;
• and
• executing a data memory barrier instruction for allowing prior writes to memory of the system to be detected before a next instruction executes.

A multiprocessor system, comprising:

• a first processor, the first processor including local cache accessible only by the first processor;
• a second processor communicatively coupled with the first processor, the second processor including local cache accessible only by the second processor;
• a memory, the memory being communicatively coupled with the first processor and the second processor;
• a shared cache, the shared cache configured for being accessible by the first processor and the second processor,
• wherein the system is a distributed processing system and is configured for allocating a copy of a single producer single consumer queue and a copy of shared variables to the shared cache, the shared variables being control variables used by the processors to signal each other and being cacheable only in the shared cache.