João Lourenço
Changing the world, one student at a time…
Computer Science Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, P-2829-516 CAPARICA, Portugal — joao.lourenco [AT] fct [DOT] unl [DOT] pt (email)
Consistent State Software Transactional Memory
- Citation:
- Cunha, G., J. Lourenço, and R. J. Dias, "Consistent State Software Transactional Memory", IV Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores (JETC'08), Lisboa, Portugal, ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, pp. 251–256, 2008.
Abstract:
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising programming model that adapts many concepts borrowed from the databases world to control concurrent accesses to memory (RAM) locations. In this paper we propose a new classification for the active states of a transaction; a new memory quiescing algorithm, to allow the safe transition of a memory block form transactional to non-transactional space; we compare word and object transactional grain units; and evaluate the cost of consistent state validation, arguing that this cost can be minimized by performing partial validation on problematic code regions.
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