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
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 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||