Contention management for RSTM

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Computer Science, 2006.The continuing trend towards increasing the processing power of a system by increasing the parallelism it is capable of handling necessitates a matching increase in the amount of parallelism present in everyday applications. The standard lock-based model is flawed and needs replacing; transactional memory is one candidate for the new multi-threaded programming paradigm, and RSTM is a TM system. In this paper, we examine the various facets of TM before delving specifically into contention management in RSTM and DSTM. We compare various contention managers' performance in RSTM and DSTM, and then examine some new ones specific to RSTM