Linux Plumbers Conf 2013

One Line Summary

Abstract

Multiple CPUs now support lock elision using hardware transactional memory to address lock scaling problems in existing software. Discuss the state of the Intel TSX implementation, including kernel, glibc, others.

Presentation Materials

Speaker

• Andi Kleen

  Biography

  Andi Kleen is a long term kernel developer. He has dabbled in many different areas, from networking, to low level architecture code, over NUMA, RAS and other areas. Currently he works on performance and performance analysis

  Sessions

  • * Current status of lock elision in Linux
    • Title: Current status of lock elision in Linux
    • Microconference: Scaling
    • Time: 2:05pm
    • One Line Summary:

      Discuss the current status of lock elision in Linux

    • slides
    • Speakers: Andi Kleen