Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
The shift towards multicore processors and the well-known drawbacks imposed by lock-based synchronization have forced researchers to devise new alternatives for building concurren...
Felipe Klein, Alexandro Baldassin, Joao Moreira, P...
Chip-multiprocessors are quickly becoming popular in embedded systems. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded appli...
Njuguna Njoroge, Jared Casper, Sewook Wee, Yuriy T...
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
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...