Aggressive release consistency for software distributed shared memory

Author

Fu, Shiwa S. ; Tzeng, Nian-Feng

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Comput. Studies, Southwestern Louisiana Univ., Lafayette, LA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

27-30 May 1997

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

295

Abstract

As a software-based distributed shared memory (DSM) system is especially sensitive to the traffic amount over the network, we propose a new software DSM model. The model postpones the enforcement of data coherence at the time of the first shared memory access after an acquire, instead of at the time of the acquire like the lazy release consistency (LRC) model. This leads to an aggressive implementation of release consistency and thus a reduced number of messages transferred over the network when compared with LRC. Our model is evaluated on the basis of the TreadMarks framework using three applications, where TreadMarks is a software DSM implementation following LRC. The experimental results on a network of workstations indicate that our model leads to fewer messages transmitted across the network than LRC, by over 16% for one application and over 12% for the other two

Keywords

data integrity; distributed memory systems; local area networks; message passing; shared memory systems; software performance evaluation; TreadMarks framework; aggressive release consistency; data coherence; lazy release consistency model; message passing; network of workstations; network traffic; shared memory access; software DSM model; software distributed shared memory system; Application software; Coherence; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Hardware; Lead; Telecommunication traffic; Time sharing computer systems; Traffic control; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7813-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1997.598054

Filename

598054