Analyzing the Performance of Lock-Free Data Structures: A Conflict-Based Model
Paper i proceeding, 2015

This paper considers the modeling and the analysis of the performance of lock-free concurrent data structures that can be represented as linear combinations of fixed size retry loops. Our main contribution is a new way of modeling and analyzing a general class of lock-free algorithms, achieving predictions of throughput that are close to what we observe in practice. We emphasize two kinds of conflicts that shape the performance: (i) hardware conflicts, due to concurrent calls to atomic primitives; (ii) logical conflicts, caused by concurrent operations on the shared data structure. We propose also a common framework that enables a fair comparison between lock-free implementations by covering the whole contention domain, and comes with a method for calculating a good back-off strategy. Our experimental results, based on a set of widely used concurrent data structures and on abstract lock-free designs, show that our analysis follows closely the actual code behavior.(1)

Författare

Aras Atalar

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Paul Renaud Goud

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Philippas Tsigas

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 9363 341-355
978-3-662-48653-5 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Datorteknik

DOI

10.1007/978-3-662-48653-5_23

ISBN

978-3-662-48653-5

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2017-10-08