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International Symposium on Stabilizing, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

SSS 2019: Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems pp 277–295Cite as

Adaptive Versioning in Transactional Memories

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Transactional memory has been receiving much attention from both academia and industry. In transactional memory, program code is split into transactions, blocks of code that appear to execute atomically. Transactions are executed speculatively and the speculative execution is supported through data versioning and conflict detection and resolution mechanisms. Lazy versioning makes aborts fast but penalizes commits, whereas eager versioning makes commits fast but penalizes aborts. In this paper, we present an adaptive versioning approach that dynamically switches between eager and lazy versioning at runtime based on appropriate system parameters so that the performance of a transactional memory system is always better than that is obtained using either eager or lazy versioning individually. We implemented our adaptive versioning approach in the latest TinySTM distribution and extensively evaluated it through 5 micro-benchmarks and 8 complex benchmarks from STAMP and STAMPEDE suites. The results show significant benefits of our approach, giving performance improvements as much as 6.3x for execution time and as much as 170x for number of aborts.

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation grant CCF-1936450.

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    The experimental results conducted on basic Adaptive showed that the number of aborts always decrease in all the benchmarks but execution time for some benchmarks increase compared to the execution times obtained using eager and lazy versioning individually.

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Poudel, P., Sharma, G. (2019). Adaptive Versioning in Transactional Memories. In: Ghaffari, M., Nesterenko, M., Tixeuil, S., Tucci, S., Yamauchi, Y. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34992-9_22

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