Hardware atomicity: An effective abstraction for reliable software speculation

Naveen Neelakantam; Ravi Rajwar; Suresh Srinivas; Uma Srinivasan; Craig Zilles

doi:10.1109/MM.2008.7

Hardware atomicity: An effective abstraction for reliable software speculation

Naveen Neelakantam, Ravi Rajwar, Suresh Srinivas, Uma Srinivasan, Craig Zilles

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

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Abstract

Hardware support for atomic execution can both greatly simplify the implementation of existing speculative compiler optimizations and enable new ones. Given current technology trends, this hardware and software cooperation is a compelling approach; such optimizations can simultaneously improve single-thread performance and reduce power consumption in both sequential and multithreaded applications.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	21-31
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2008.7
State	Published - Jan 2008

Keywords

Architecture
Atomicity
Checkpoint
Compiler
Compiler-architecture interactions
Isolation
Java
Optimization
Speculation

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Software
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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