Consistent device communication in restartable transactional distributed memory systems

Author

Gerhold, Steffen ; Himpel, Christian ; Weggerle, Alexander ; Schmitt, Thilo ; Schulthess, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Distrib. Syst., Ulm Univ. Ulm, Ulm, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Programming conventional hardware devices using transaction-based drivers poses new challenges to Software Transactional Memory (STM) systems. This paper analyzes the interactions between transactionally executed drivers and non-transactional hardware devices using the distributed transactional cluster operating system Rainbow OS. We demonstrate solutions to guarantee device state and data consistency in case of aborts of driver transactions due to synchronization issues as well as after node failures. Additionally we present a driver framework which verifies the feasibility of our approach.

Keywords

device drivers; distributed memory systems; operating systems (computers); software fault tolerance; workstation clusters; Rainbow OS; STM; consistent device communication; distributed transactional cluster operating system; nontransactional hardware devices; restartable transactional distributed memory systems; software transactional memory; transactionally executed drivers; Complexity theory; Driver circuits; Hardware; Operating systems; Time division multiplexing; Universal Serial Bus; Fault tolerance; device drivers; distributed computing; software transactional memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2010 23rd Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5376-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575148

Filename

5575148