Open Nested Transactions: Semantics and Support
J. Eliot B. Moss · 2006
We describe semantics for serializable (safe) open nested transactions. Given these semantics, we then suggest hardware necessary to support them directly. We further consider some useful, but not serializable, applications for open nesting, and their hardware implications. We focus primarily on linear nesting, which we previously argued to be more amenable to hardware support than the general case.