Abstract:System virtualization is a key enabling technology. However, existing virtualization techniques suffer from a significant limitation due to their limited cross-ISA support for emerging architecture-specific hardware extensions. To address this issue, we make the first attempt at hardware transactional memory (HTM), which has been supported by modern multi-core processors and used by more and more applications to simplify concurrent programming. In particular, we propose an efficient and scalable mechanism to s… Show more
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