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SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
TxLinux: using and managing hardware transactional memory in an operating system
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the sc...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 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
ARC
2010
Springer
186views Hardware» more  ARC 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Application-Specific Signatures for Transactional Memory in Soft Processors
As reconfigurable computing hardware and in particular FPGA-based systems-on-chip comprise an increasing number of processor and accelerator cores, supporting sharing and synchroni...
Martin Labrecque, Mark Jeffrey, J. Gregory Steffan
MICRO
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
13 years 5 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 primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting nested transactional memory in logTM
Nested transactional memory (TM) facilitates software composition by letting one module invoke another without either knowing whether the other uses transactions. Closed nested tr...
Michelle J. Moravan, Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore...