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DNIS
2007
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Improving the Performance of Read-Only Transactions Through Speculation
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
SPAA
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Lightweight, robust adaptivity for software transactional memory
When a program uses Software Transactional Memory (STM) to synchronize accesses to shared memory, the performance often depends on which STM implementation is used. Implementation...
Michael F. Spear
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 4 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...
SYSTOR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Transactifying Apache's cache module
Apache is a large-scale industrial multi-process and multithreaded application, which uses lock-based synchronization. We report on our experience in modifying Apache’s cache mo...
Haggai Eran, Ohad Lutzky, Zvika Guz, Idit Keidar
ICCI
1993
14 years 1 months ago
The Perfect and Imperfect Clocks Approach to Performance Analysis of Basic Timestamp Ordering in Distributed Databases
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Christos Bouras, Paul G. Spirakis