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MICRO
2008
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Dependence-aware transactional memory for increased concurrency
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
WDAG
2010
Springer
177views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Transactions as the Foundation of a Memory Consistency Model
We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Transactions with isolation and cooperation
We present the TIC (Transactions with Isolation and Cooperation) model for concurrent programming. TIC adds to standard transactional memory the ability for a transaction to obser...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Testing implementations of transactional memory
Transactional memory is an attractive design concept for scalable multiprocessors because it offers efficient lock-free synchronization and greatly simplifies parallel software....
Chaiyasit Manovit, Sudheendra Hangal, Hassan Chafi...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...