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PPL
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
On the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory
We present the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory (TM). Despite the large interest for performance of TMs, no existing research work has investigated the impact of solving a...
Vincent Gramoli, Derin Harmanci, Pascal Felber
ISCA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Virtualizing Transactional Memory
Writing concurrent programs is difficult because of the complexity of ensuring proper synchronization. Conventional lock-based synchronization suffers from wellknown limitations, ...
Ravi Rajwar, Maurice Herlihy, Konrad K. Lai
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Toward a theory of transactional contention managers
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
On avoiding spare aborts in transactional memory
This paper takes a step toward developing a theory for understanding aborts in transactional memory systems (TMs). Existing TMs may abort many transactions that could, in fact, co...
Idit Keidar, Dmitri Perelman