An efficient lock-aware transactional memory implementation
Justin Gottschlich, Jeremy G. Siek, Manish Vachharajani, Dwight Y. Winkler, Daniel A. Connors · 2009
Transactional memory (TM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism that provides a simple and composable programming model. Unfortunately, transactions violate the semantics of mutual exclusion locks when they execute concurrently. Due to the prevalence of locks, transactions must be made lock-aware enabling them to correctly interoperate with locks.