What is the difference between deadlock prevention and avoidance algorithms?

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What is the difference between deadlock prevention and avoidance algorithms?

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written 7.9 years ago by

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Sr.no	Deadlock prevention	Deadlock Avoidance
1	It is based on the fact that if any of the four necessary conditions is prevented, a deadlock will not occur.	It checks the state of the system, in advance and sees if the allocation of a resource will lead to a deadlock condition, if so it should wait.
2	It doesn’t need the knowledge of future process resource requests.	The avoidance method requires the knowledge of all future process resource requests
3	Advantage: It avoids the cost of detecting and resolving deadlocks because this method would make any of the four conditions false and avoid deadlock	Advantage: This method runs dynamically while allocating resource to a process and does not constrain the resources or processes with no system degradation or underutilization.
4	Disadvantage: It results in degraded system efficiency and low device utilization.	Disadvantage: It has certain restrictions like resource requirement of each process in advance, a fixed number of resources to allocate, no process should exit while holding resources.
5	Here we constrain resource requests to prevent at least one of the four conditions of deadlock.	It allows the four conditions but makes judicious decisions so that the deadlock point is not potentially reached.
6	Deadlock prevention techniques include non-blocking synchronization algorithms, serializing tokens, Dijkstras algorithm etc	For single instance of a resource type ,use,Resource Allocation Graph,For Multiple instance of a resource type, we use bankers algorithm
7	In some cases pre-emption happens more than often necessary	There is no pre-emption here.

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