OSDI '23 - Ship your Critical Section, Not Your Data: Enabling Transparent Delegation with TCLOCKS

OSDI '23 - Ship your Critical Section, Not Your Data: Enabling Transparent Delegation with TCLOCKS

Vishal Gupta, EPFL, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, SRMIST, Yugesh Kothari, EPFL, Yueyang Pan, EPFL, Diyu Zhou, EPFL, Sanidhya Kashyap, EPFL

Today's high-performance applications heavily rely on various synchronization mechanisms, such as locks. While locks ensure mutual exclusion of shared data, their design impacts application scalability. Locks, as used in practice, move the lock-guarded shared data to the core holding it, which leads to shared data transfer …

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