Early experience with a commercial hardware transactional memory implementation

  • Authors:
  • Dave Dice;Yossi Lev;Mark Moir;Dan Nussbaum;Marek Olszewski

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Brown University and Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sun Microsystems Laboratories

  • Venue:
  • Early experience with a commercial hardware transactional memory implementation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We report on our experience with the hardware transactional memory (HTM) feature of two revisions of a prototype multicore processor. Our experience includes a number of promising results using HTM to improve performance in a variety of contexts, and also identifies some ways in which the feature could be improved to make it even better. We give detailed accounts of our experiences, sharing techniques we used to achieve the results we have, as well as describing challenges we faced in doing so. This technical report expands on our ASPLOS paper [9], providing more detail and reporting on additional work conducted since that paper was written.