Speculative Read Write Locks
Shady Issa, Paolo Romano, Tiago Lopes · 2018
Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) has recently entered the realm of mainstream computing thanks to its integration in processors commercialized by major industrial manufacturers. HTM provides highly-efficient, hardware-assisted synchronization mechanisms for concurrent programs. Unfortunately, though, existing HTM implementations also suffer from severe limitations that are inherently related to their best-effort, hardware-based design.