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A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronization Mechanism

Summary: Hardware-based synchronization to cut concurrency-control overhead in multiprocessor transaction processing. Symmetry-aware, table-driven scheme reduces protocol tables to generic hardware, delivering a fast, general-purpose CC mechanism with a practical prototype and real-world results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2268
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1985
Pagerank
5.4460661e-05
Overall Rank
5,546 | 61.42%
DOI
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1,485 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011706232
6,435 Performance Analysis of Coherency Control Policies through Lock Retention 1992 SIGMOD 5.0640129e-05
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577 A Study of the Effects of Locking Granularity in a Data Base Management System 1977 SIGMOD 0.00019848992
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