Unbounded Transactional Memory

Authors:
C. Scott Ananian;Krste Asanovic;Bradley C. Kuszmaul;Charles E. Leiserson;Sean Lie
Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Advanced Micro Devices
Venue:
IEEE Micro
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Transactional memory should be virtualized to support transactions of arbitrary footprint and duration. The unbounded transactional memory (UTM) architecture achieves high performance in the common case of small transactions, without sacrificing correctness in large transactions.