Improving software concurrency with hardware-assisted memory snapshot

Authors:
JaeWoong Chung;Jiwon Seo;Woongki Baek;Chi CaoMinh;Austen McDonald;Christos Kozyrakis;Kunle Olukotun
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the twentieth annual symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We propose a hardware-assisted memory snapshot to improve software concurrency. It is built on top of the hardware resources for transactional memory and allows for easy development of system software modules such as concurrent garbage collector and dynamic profiler.