Ritson, Carl G. and Barnes, Frederick R.M. (2013) An Evaluation of Intel's Restricted Transactional Memory for CPAs. In: Welch, Peter H. and Barnes, Frederick R.M. and Broenink, Jan F. and Chalmers, Kevin and Pedersen, Jan B. and Sampson, Adam T., eds. Communicating Process Architectures 2013 Proceedings of the 35th WoTUG Technical Meeting. Open Channel Publishing, pp. 271-291. ISBN 978-0-9565409-7-3. (KAR id:36939)
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Abstract
With the release of their latest processor microarchitecture, codenamed Haswell, Intel added new Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) to their processors' instruction set. These extensions include support for Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM), a programming model in which arbitrary sized units of memory can be read and written in an atomic manner. This paper describes the low-level RTM programming model, benchmarks the performance of its instructions and speculates on how it may be used to implement and enhance Communicating Process Architectures.
| Item Type: | Book section |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Transactional Synchronization Extensions, TSX, Restricted Transactional Memory, RTM, transactional memory, performance |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Frederick Barnes |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2013 04:44 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:13 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/36939 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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