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Recoverable Mutual Exclusion with Abortability

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Networked Systems (NETYS 2019)

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In light of recent advances in non-volatile main memory technology, there has been a flurry of research in designing algorithms that are resilient to process crashes. As a result of main memory non-volatility, a process is allowed to crash any time during the execution, without affecting the state of the data stored in the main memory. With the assumption that a process eventually restarts after a crash, prior works have focused on designing mutual exclusion algorithms that use the non-volatile main memory to recover from such crashes. Such mutual exclusion algorithms that provide multiple processes with a mutually exclusive access to a shared resource in the presence of process crashes are called Recoverable Mutual Exclusion (RME) algorithms. We present the first RME algorithm where a process has the ability to abort executing the algorithm, if it decides to give up its request for a shared resource before being granted access to that resource. With n being the maximum number of processes for which the algorithm is designed, in the absence of a crash our algorithm guarantees a worst-case remote memory references (RMR) complexity of \(O(\log n)\) per passage on the Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) machines, and a complexity of \(O(\log n)\) or O(n) on Cache Coherent (CC) machines, depending on how caches are managed.

The first author is grateful to the Frank family and Dartmouth College for their support through James Frank Family Professorship of Computer Science.

The second author is grateful for the support from Dartmouth College.

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    Prasad Jayanti & Anup Joshi

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Jayanti, P., Joshi, A. (2019). Recoverable Mutual Exclusion with Abortability. In: Atig, M., Schwarzmann, A. (eds) Networked Systems. NETYS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11704. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31277-0_14

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