Unified optimistic and pessimistic concurrency control for a software transactional memory (STM) system

• Main Authors: OLIVIER JEFFREY V, ADL-TABATABAI ALI-REZA, BERKOWITS SION, NI YANG, TAL ADY, BACH MOSHE, COWNIE JAMES HENRY, SAHA BRATIN, WELE ADAM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.10.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method and apparatus for unified concurrency control in a Software Transactional Memory (STM) is herein described. A transaction record associated with a memory address referenced by a transactional memory access operation includes optimistic and pessimistic concurrency control fields. Access barr...