The present disclosure relates to a lockless buffer resource management scheme. In the proposed scheme, a buffer pool is configured to have an allocation list and a de-allocation list. The allocation list includes one or more buffer objects linked by a next pointer in a previous buffer object to a next buffer object, and a head pointer pointing to a buffer object at the head of the allocation list. The de-allocation list includes one or more buffer objects linked by a next pointer in a previous buffer object to a next buffer object, a head pointer pointing to a buffer object at the head of the de-allocation list, and a tail pointer pointing to a next pointer of a buffer object at the end of the de-allocation list, wherein the tail pointer is a pointer's pointer.

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