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PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Transactional memory with strong atomicity using off-the-shelf memory protection hardware
This paper introduces a new way to provide strong atomicity in an implementation of transactional memory. Strong atomicity lets us offer clear semantics to programs, even if they ...
Martín Abadi, Tim Harris, Mojtaba Mehrara
FMCAD
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Verifying Correctness of Transactional Memories
—We show how to verify the correctness of transactional memory implementations with a model checker. We show how to specify transactional memory in terms of the admissible interc...
Ariel Cohen 0002, John W. O'Leary, Amir Pnueli, Ma...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months 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...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 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...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 1 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