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HOTOS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
General and efficient locking without blocking
Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
CONCUR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Model of Dynamic Separation for Transactional Memory
Abstract. Dynamic separation is a new programming discipline for systems with transactional memory. We study it formally in the setting of a small calculus with transactions. We pr...
Martín Abadi, Tim Harris, Katherine F. Moor...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
202views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Hardware Support for Relaxed Concurrency Control in Transactional Memory
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
Utku Aydonat, Tarek S. Abdelrahman
SOSP
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Free Transactions With Rio Vista
Abstract: Transactions and recoverable memories are powerful mechanisms for handling failures and manipulating persistent data. Unfortunately, standard recoverable memories incur a...
David E. Lowell, Peter M. Chen