We present thrifty-malloc: a transaction-friendly dynamic memory manager for high-end embedded multicore systems. The manager combines modularity, ease-of-use and hardware transactional memory (HTM) compatibility in a lightweight and memory-efficient design. Thrifty-malloc is easy to deploy and configure for non-expert programmers, yet provides good performance with low memory overhead for highly-parallel embedded applications running on massively parallel processor arrays (MPPAs) or many-core architectures. In addition, the transparent mechanisms that increase our manager's resilience to unpredictable dynamic situations incur a low timing overhead in comparison to established techniques.
Thrifty-malloc: A HW/SW codesign for the dynamic management of hardware transactional memory in embedded multicore systems / Carle, Thomas; Papagiannopoulou, Dimitra; Moreshet, Tali; Marongiu, Andrea; Herlihy, Maurice; Bahar, R. Iris. - ELETTRONICO. - (2016), pp. 2968513.1-2968513.10. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2016 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES 2016 tenutosi a Pittsburgh Marriott City Center, usa nel 2016) [10.1145/2968455.2968513].
Thrifty-malloc: A HW/SW codesign for the dynamic management of hardware transactional memory in embedded multicore systems
Marongiu, Andrea;
2016
Abstract
We present thrifty-malloc: a transaction-friendly dynamic memory manager for high-end embedded multicore systems. The manager combines modularity, ease-of-use and hardware transactional memory (HTM) compatibility in a lightweight and memory-efficient design. Thrifty-malloc is easy to deploy and configure for non-expert programmers, yet provides good performance with low memory overhead for highly-parallel embedded applications running on massively parallel processor arrays (MPPAs) or many-core architectures. In addition, the transparent mechanisms that increase our manager's resilience to unpredictable dynamic situations incur a low timing overhead in comparison to established techniques.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
