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The Teleportation Design Pattern for Hardware Transactional Memory

Authors Nachshon Cohen, Maurice Herlihy, Erez Petrank, Elias Wald

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Nachshon Cohen
Maurice Herlihy
Erez Petrank
Elias Wald

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Nachshon Cohen, Maurice Herlihy, Erez Petrank, and Elias Wald. The Teleportation Design Pattern for Hardware Transactional Memory. In 21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 95, pp. 10:1-10:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.10

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We identify a design pattern for concurrent data structures, called teleportation, that uses best- effort hardware transactional memory to speed up certain kinds of legacy concurrent data struc- tures. Teleportation unifies and explains several existing data structure designs, and it serves as the basis for novel approaches to reducing the memory traffic associated with fine-grained locking, and with hazard pointer management for memory reclamation.

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  • Hardware transactional memory
  • concurrent data structures

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