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2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'03)
Software Queue-Based Algorithms for Pipelined Synchronization on Multiprocessors
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
October 06-October 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2018-9
Masaru Takesue, Hosei University, Tokyo
Synchronization either ensures mutual exclusion on shared data or forces a processor to wait until a set of variables becomes a specific state; the latter is called conditional synchronization. We have improved the performance of mutual exclusion on multiprocessors by allowing processors to concurrently access different parts of shared data in a pipelined manner. A special software tree of queue-tail pointers is the key scheme for the pipelining, but it requires other hardware schemes such as the queue distributed in the caches. This paper proposes software queue-based algorithms for pipelined synchronization only with the Fetch&Inc as hardware support. We pipeline mutual exclusion by exploiting the software tree. Conditional synchronization is pipelined by declaring the semaphore as a data structure, and by simulating the P and V operations so that the V can be eagerly performed before accessing shared data. Evaluation results with an RTL (Register Transfer Level) simulator show that as compared with hardware queue-based non-pipelined synchronization, the speedup of our pipelining reaches up to over 2.0 for large data in heavily contentious cases.
Index Terms:
Multiprocessors, synchronization, algorithms, queue-based locks, pipelining
Citation:
Masaru Takesue, "Software Queue-Based Algorithms for Pipelined Synchronization on Multiprocessors," icppw, pp.115, 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'03), 2003
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