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CACM
2008
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14 years 16 days ago
TxLinux and MetaTM: transactional memory and the operating system
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, which is a ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, Owen S. ...
MASCOTS
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling the Run-time Behavior of Transactional Memory
In this paper, we develop a queuing theory based analytical model to evaluate the performance of transactional memory. Based on the statistical characteristics observed on actual e...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong
DAGSTUHL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Case for Deconstructing Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
Major hardware and software vendors are curious about transactional memory (TM), but are understandably cautious about committing to hardware changes. Our thesis is that deconstru...
Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael...
CONCUR
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Model of Dynamic Separation for Transactional Memory
Abstract. Dynamic separation is a new programming discipline for systems with transactional memory. We study it formally in the setting of a small calculus with transactions. We pr...
Martín Abadi, Tim Harris, Katherine F. Moor...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding transactional memory performance
Abstract—Transactional memory promises to generalize transactional programming to mainstream languages and data structures. The purported benefit of transactions is that they ar...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
HIPEAC
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Performance by Reducing Aborts in Hardware Transactional Memory
The optimistic nature of Transactional Memory (TM) systems can lead to the concurrent execution of transactions that are later found to conflict. Conflicts degrade scalability, a...
Mohammad Ansari, Behram Khan, Mikel Luján, ...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 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
PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Transactional predication: high-performance concurrent sets and maps for STM
Concurrent collection classes are widely used in multi-threaded programming, but they provide atomicity only for a fixed set of operations. Software transactional memory (STM) pr...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Jared Casper, Hassan Chafi,...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
Maurice Herlihy, J. Eliot B. Moss
WDAG
2005
Springer
82views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Transactional Memory for Metric-Space Networks
Transactional Memory is a concurrent programming API in which concurrent threads synchronize via transactions (instead of locks). Although this model has mostly been studied in the...
Maurice Herlihy, Ye Sun