Runtime elision of transactional barriers for captured memory

Carvalho, Fernando Miguel; Cachopo, Joao

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Authors

Carvalho, Fernando Miguel

Cachopo, Joao

Abstract(s)

In this paper, we propose a new technique that can identify transaction-local memory (i.e. captured memory), in managed environments, while having a low runtime overhead. We implemented our proposal in a well known STM framework (Deuce) and we tested it in STMBench7 with two different STMs: TL2 and LSA. In both STMs the performance improved significantly (4 times and 2.6 times, respectively). Moreover, running the STAMP benchmarks with our approach shows improvements of 7 times in the best case for the Vacation application.

Keywords

Neutrino physics Discrete and finite symmetries performance Transactions Software transactional memory Runtime optimizations

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2836

Citation

CARVALHO, Fernando Miguel; CACHOPO, João – Runtime elision of transactional barriers for captured memory. ACM Sigplan Notices. ISSN 0362-1340. Vol. 48, N.º 8 (2013), pp. 303-304.