ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory

Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically executes speculative accesses in the region. Five new instructions are added to demarcate the region, use speculative access...

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Published in:	2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture pp. 39 - 50
Main Authors:	Jaewoong Chung, Yen, Luke, Diestelhorst, Stephan, Pohlack, Martin, Hohmuth, Michael, Christie, David, Grossman, Dan
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01.12.2010
Subjects:	Context Data structures Hardware lock-free programming Out of order Programming Registers transactional memory x86 architecture
ISBN:	1424490715, 9781424490714
ISSN:	1072-4451
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