A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronisation Mechanism.

John T. Robinson: A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronisation Mechanism. SIGMOD Conference 1985: 122-130

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  author    = {John T. Robinson},
  editor    = {Shamkant B. Navathe},
  title     = {A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronisation Mechanism},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1985 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
               Management of Data, Austin, Texas, May 28-31, 1985},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1985},
  pages     = {122-130},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/318898.318910, db/conf/sigmod/Robinson85.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/85},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Abstract

One way to reduce the overhead of concurrency control in a multiprocessor transaction processing system is to implement an underlying synchronization mechanism or a simple global concurrency control directly in hardware. The problem with this approach is that a strong commitment may then be made to a particular synchronization protocol, and so the resulting hardware mechanism may be useful in only a very narrow range of systems. A solution is possible using a table-driven approach. However, a straightforward table-driven approach is impractical due to the extremely large table sizes required for many protocols. It is shown here that this problem can be solved by reducing the table sizes required by making use of the processor symmetry that occurs in most systems. The resulting algorithm for a table-driven synchronzation mechanism is not only general-purpose but also extremely fast. An example hardware implementation of this algorithm is presented, and practical experience using this approach is described.

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Philip S. Yu, Asit Dan: Effect of System Dynamics on Coupling Architectures for Transaction Processing. ICDE 1992: 458-469

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