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21st IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'02)
Loose Synchronization of Multithreaded Replicas
Osaka University, Suita, Japan
October 13-October 16
ISBN: 0-7695-1659-9
Claudio Basile, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keith Whisnant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ravi Iyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Although multithreading can improve performance, it is a source of nondeterminism in application behavior. Existing approaches to replicating multithreaded applications either synchronize replicas at interrupt level, at the expense of performance, or use a nonpreemptive deterministic scheduler, at the expense of concurrency. This paper presents a loose synchronization algorithm for ensuring deterministic replica behavior while preserving concurrency. The algorithm synchronizes replica threads only on state updates by enforcing an equivalent order of mutex acquisitions across replicas.
Citation:
Claudio Basile, Keith Whisnant, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravi Iyer, "Loose Synchronization of Multithreaded Replicas," srds, pp.250, 21st IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'02), 2002
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