NDLI: Transactional Forwarding: Supporting Highly-Concurrent STM in Asynchronous Distributed Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Saad, M.M. Ravindran, B.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Distributed software transactional memory (or DTM) is an emerging promising model for distributed concurrency control, as it avoids the problems with locks (e.g., distributed deadlocks), while retaining the programming simplicity of coarse-grained locking. We consider DTM in Herlihy and Sun's data flow distributed execution model, where transactions are immobile and objects dynamically migrate to invoking transactions. To support DTM in this model and ensure transactional properties including atomicity, consistency, and isolation, we develop an algorithm called Transactional Forwarding Algorithm (or TFA). TFA guarantees a consistent view of shared objects between distributed transactions, provides atomicity for object operations, and transparently handles object relocation and versioning using an asynchronous version clock-based validation algorithm. We show that TFA is opaque (its correctness property) and permits strong progressiveness (its progress property). We implement TFA in a Java DTM framework and conduct experimental studies on a 120-node system, executing over 4 million transactions, with more than 1000 active concurrent transactions. Our implementation reveals that TFA outperforms competing distributed concurrency control models including Java RMI with spin locks, distributed shared memory, and directory-based DTM, by as much as 13x (for read-dominant transactions), and competitor DTM implementations by as much as 4x.
Starting Page	219
Ending Page	226
File Size	301546
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467347907
ISSN	15506533
e-ISBN	9780769549071
DOI	10.1109/SBAC-PAD.2012.36
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-10-24
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Clocks Synchronization Protocols System recovery Concurrency control Software Data models Concurrency Distributed Systems Software Transactional Memory Asynchronous Network
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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