Inherent limitations on disjoint-access parallel implementations of transactional memory
Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel, Alessia Milani · 2009
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising approach for designing concurrent data structures, and it is essential to develop better understanding of the formal properties that can be achieved by TM implementations. Two fundamental properties of TM implementations are disjoint-access parallelism, which is critical for their scalability, and the invisibility of read operations, which reduces memory contention.