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Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory
January/February 2008 (vol. 28 no. 1)
pp. 32-41
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Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, David A. Wood, "Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory," IEEE Micro, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 32-41, January/February, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2008.11,
author = {Jayaram Bobba and Kevin E. Moore and Haris Volos and Luke Yen and Mark D. Hill and Michael M. Swift and David A. Wood},
title = {Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {28},
number = {1},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2008},
pages = {32-41},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2008.11},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Micro
TI - Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory
IS - 1
SN - 0272-1732
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EP41
EPD - 32-41
A1 - Jayaram Bobba,
A1 - Kevin E. Moore,
A1 - Haris Volos,
A1 - Luke Yen,
A1 - Mark D. Hill,
A1 - Michael M. Swift,
A1 - David A. Wood,
PY - 2008
KW - transactional memory
KW - pathology
KW - hardware transactional memory
KW - conflict resolution
KW - version management
KW - conflict detection
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JA - IEEE Micro
ER -
 
Jayaram Bobba, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Kevin E. Moore, Sun Microsystems
Haris Volos, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Luke Yen, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Michael M. Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison
David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Transactional memory is a promising approach to ease parallel programming. Hardware transactional memory system designs reflect choices along three key design dimensions: conflict detection, version management, and conflict resolution. The authors identify a set of performance pathologies that could degrade performance in proposed HTM designs. Improving conflict resolution could eliminate these pathologies so designers can build robust HTM systems.

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Index Terms:
transactional memory, pathology, hardware transactional memory, conflict resolution, version management, conflict detection
Citation:
Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, David A. Wood, "Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory," IEEE Micro, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 32-41, Jan.-Feb. 2008, doi:10.1109/MM.2008.11
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