Software Transactional Memory in Multicore Processors

Author

Wang, Xiaoqun ; Ji, Zhenzhou ; Fu, Chen ; Hu, Mingzeng ; Yang, Xiaozong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The transactional memory in multicore processors has been a very hot research area over past several years. Many transactional memory systems have been proposed to solve the synchronization problem of multicore processors. Software transactional memory is one of the critical methods to ease parallel programming and improve the scalability in the environment with many cores. In this study, software transactional memory systems for Multicore processors are reviewed according to the following aspects: transaction granularity, version management, conflict detection and synchronization. Finally, we discuss an active research challenge: whether strong isolation should be supported for the tradeoff between performance and semantics correctness in software transactional memory systems.

Keywords

multiprocessing systems; parallel programming; transaction processing; conflict detection; multicore processors; parallel programming; semantics correctness; software transactional memory system; synchronization; transaction granularity; version management; Computer science; Hardware; Memory management; Multicore processing; Parallel programming; Registers; Scalability; Software performance; Software systems; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2009. ICIECS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4994-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIECS.2009.5364492

Filename

5364492