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PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
CGO
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An efficient software transactional memory using commit-time invalidation
To improve the performance of transactional memory (TM), researchers have found many eager and lazy optimizations for conflict detection, the process of determining if transaction...
Justin Emile Gottschlich, Manish Vachharajani, Jer...
VLDB
1992
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
A Performance Study of Alternative Object Faulting and Pointer Swizzling Strategies
This paper presents a portable, efficient method for accessing memory resident persistent objects in virtual memory in the context of the E programming language. Under the approac...
Seth J. White, David J. DeWitt
PODC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Advanced contention management for dynamic software transactional memory
The obstruction-free Dynamic Software Transactional Memory (DSTM) system of Herlihy et al. allows only one transaction at a time to acquire an object for writing. Should a second ...
William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Scheduling support for transactional memory contention management
Transactional Memory (TM) is considered as one of the most promising paradigms for developing concurrent applications. TM has been shown to scale well on multiple cores when the d...
Walther Maldonado, Patrick Marlier, Pascal Felber,...