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MICRO
2010
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
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...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
STM versus lock-based systems: an energy consumption perspective
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...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
ATLAS: a chip-multiprocessor with transactional memory support
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...
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HPCA
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Bloom Filter Guided Transaction Scheduling
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...
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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 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...