Taking The Locks Off Transactional Memory
November 19, 2015 Mark Funk
The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. It’s hard to say what all led to this realization that transactional memory could be created and improve system performance, but it is useful to picture a few database gurus and processor designers sharing nachos and beer and slowly realizing the similarities between the sharing and exclusive access to data in both database systems and processor caches supporting cache coherency.
With those similarities and one monster of a cache, what would it take to …
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