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TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System.

TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a sychronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, which is a modification of Linux, is the first real-scale benchmark for transactional memory (TM). MetaTM is a modification of the x8...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 9; pp. 83 - 92
Main Authors: Rossbach, Christopher J., Ramadan, Hany E., Hofmann, Owen S., Porter, Donald E., Bhandari, Aditya, Witchel, Emmett
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2008
Subjects:
Computer operating system software
Architecture
Computer operating systems
Synchronization
Memory
Data protection
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