TxLinux
Published in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review • Oct 14, 2007
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Christopher J. Rossbach
Owen S. Hofmann
Donald E. Porter
Abstract
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. This paper describes and measures TxLinux and discusses two innovations in detail: cooperation between locks and t...
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