DocumentCode
864537
Title
Transactional execution: toward reliable, high-performance multithreading
Author
Rajwar, Ravi ; Goodman, James
Volume
23
Issue
6
fYear
2003
Firstpage
117
Lastpage
125
Abstract
Although lock-based critical sections are the synchronization method of choice, they have significant performance limitations and lack certain properties, such as failure atomicity and stability. Addressing both these limitations requires considerable software overhead. Transactional lock removal can dynamically eliminate synchronization operations and achieve transparent transactional execution by treating lock-based critical sections as lock-free optimistic transactions.
Keywords
concurrency control; multi-threading; shared memory systems; synchronisation; transaction processing; failure atomicity; lock-based critical sections; lock-free optimistic transactions; reliable high-performance multithreading; synchronization operations; transactional execution; transactional lock removal; transparent transactional execution; Multithreading; Operating systems; Programming profession; Stability; System testing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Transaction databases; Web server; Yarn;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Micro, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1732
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MM.2003.1261395
Filename
1261395
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