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Foil 93 The TreadMarks Interface

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Locks
Locks are used to control access to critical sections.
The routine Tmk_lock_acquire(i) acquires a lock for the calling processor, and the routine Tmk_lock_release(i) releases it.
TreadMarks uses a lazy invalidate version of release consistency and a multiple-writer protocol to reduce the amount of communication involved in implementing the SM abstraction.
The virtual memory hardware is used to detect accesses to shared memory.

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