• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.499-509
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• 2018

Recently, hybrid transactional memory (HyTM) has gained much interest from researchers because it combines the advantages of hardware transactional memory (HTM) and software transactional memory (STM). To provide the concurrency control of transactions, the existing HyTM-based studies use a bloom filter. However, they fail to overcome the typical false positive errors of a bloom filter. Though the existing studies use a global lock, the efficiency of global lock-based memory allocation is significantly low in multi-core environment. In this paper, we propose an efficient hybrid transactional memory scheme using near-optimal retry computation and sophisticated memory management in order to efficiently process transactions in multi-core environment. First, we propose a near-optimal retry computation algorithm that provides an efficient HTM configuration using machine learning algorithms, according to the characteristic of a given workload. Second, we provide an efficient concurrency control for transactions in different environments by using a sophisticated bloom filter. Third, we propose a memory management scheme being optimized for the CPU cache line, in order to provide a fast transaction processing. Finally, it is shown from our performance evaluation that our HyTM scheme achieves up to 2.5 times better performance by using the Stanford transactional applications for multi-processing (STAMP) benchmarks than the state-of-the-art algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.49-61
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• 2017

Transactional Memory (TM) has greatly changed the parallel programming paradigm for transaction processing and is classified into STM, HTM, HyTM according to hardware or software frameworks. However, the existing studies have a problem that they provide static retry policy for all workloads. To solve the problems, we propose an hybrid transactional memory scheme using sampling-based adaptive retry policy in multi-core environment. First, the proposed scheme determines whether to use STM or HTM according to the characteristic of a transaction. Otherwise, it executes HTM and STM concurrently by using a bloom filter. Second, the proposed scheme provides adaptive retry policy for HTM according to the characteristic of transactions in each workload. Finally, through the experimental performance evaluation using STAMP, the proposed scheme shows 10~20% better performance than the existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.795-798
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• 2017

최근 멀티코어 프로세서가 개발됨에 따라 병렬 프로그래밍은 멀티코어를 효과적으로 활용하기 위한 기법으로 그 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 트랜잭셔널 메모리는 처리 방식에 따라 HTM, STM, HyTM으로 구분되며, 최근 HTM 및 STM 결합한 HyTM 이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 HyTM 는 HTM과 STM의 동시성 제어를 위해 블룸필터를 사용하는 반면, 블룸필터의 자체적인 긍정 오류를 해결하지 못한다. 아울러, 트랜잭션 처리를 위한 메모리 할당/해제를 기존의 락 메커니즘을 사용하여 관리한다. 따라서 멀티코어 환경에서 스레드 수가 증가할수록 트랜잭션 처리 효율이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 멀티코어 환경에서 효율적인 트랜잭션 처리를 위한 메모리 관리 기반 하이브리드 트랜잭셔널 메모리 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 트랜잭션 처리에 최적화된 블룸필터를 제공함으로써, 병렬적으로 동시에 수행되는 서로 다른 환경의 트랜잭션에 대해 일관성 있는 처리를 지원한다. 아울러, CPU 캐시라인에 최적화된 메모리 기법을 통해, 메모리 할당량이 적은 트랜잭션은 로컬 캐시에 할당함으로써 트랜잭션의 빠른 처리를 지원한다.