Improving Software Concurrency with Hardware-Assisted Memory Snapshot
JaeWoong Chung,
Jiwon Seo,
Woongki Baek,
Chi CaoMinh,
Austen McDonald,
Christos Kozyrakis,
Kunle Olukotun
Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)
June 2008
Abstract
We propose a hardware-assisted memory snapshot to improve software concurrency. It is built on top of the hardware resources for transactional memory and allows for easy development of system software modules such as concurrent garbage collector and dynamic profiler.