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Transactional Memory (TM), an attractive solution to support concurrent accesses to main-memory storage, is already being deployed by some of the major CPU and compiler manufacturers. To address scalability and dependability challenges, researchers are now combining replication, TM and certification-based protocols. To maintain consistency and ensure common transaction serialisation order, these protocols rely in a total-order broadcast primitive, usually provided by some Group Communication System (GCS). The total-order broadcast service can be implemented by different algorithms, which hold different properties. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the impact of some algorithms implementing total-order broadcast in different TM workloads, opening up future work to improve performance of replicated TMs.
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Vale, T.M., Dias, R.J., Lourenço, J.M. (2013). On the Relevance of Total-Order Broadcast Implementations in Replicated Software Transactional Memories. In: Lourenço, J.M., Farchi, E. (eds) Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools. MUSEPAT 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39955-8_5
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