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SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
TxLinux: using and managing hardware transactional memory in an operating system
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the sc...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Implementing and Exploiting Inevitability in Software Transactional Memory
—Transactional Memory (TM) takes responsibility for concurrent, atomic execution of labeled regions of code, freeing the programmer from the need to manage locks. Typical impleme...
Michael F. Spear, Michael Silverman, Luke Dalessan...
PLDI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Parameterized Verification of Transactional Memories
We describe an automatic verification method to check whether transactional memories ensure strict serializability--a key property assumed of the transactional interface. Our main...
Michael Emmi, Rupak Majumdar, Roman Manevich
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Whodunit: transactional profiling for multi-tier applications
This paper is concerned with performance debugging of multitier applications, such as commonly found in servers and dynamic-content web sites. Existing tools and techniques for pr...
Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 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