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A Speculation-Friendly Binary Search Tree

Abstract

We introduce the first binary search tree algorithm designed for speculative executions. Prior to this work, tree structures were mainly designed for their pessimistic (non-speculative) accesses to have a bounded complexity. Researchers tried to evaluate transactional memory using such tree structures whose prominent example is the red-black tree library developed by Oracle Labs that is part of multiple benchmark distributions. Although well-engineered, such structures remain badly suited for speculative accesses, whose step complexity might raise dramatically with contention. We show that our speculation-friendly tree outperforms the existing transaction-based version of the AVL and the red-black trees. Its key novelty stems from the decoupling of update operations: they are split into one transaction that modifies the abstraction state and multiple ones that restructure its tree implementation in the background. In particular, the speculation-friendly tree is shown correct, reusable and it speeds up a transaction-based travel reservation application by up to 3:5 .
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inria-00618995 , version 1 (05-09-2011)
inria-00618995 , version 2 (05-03-2012)

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Tyler Crain, Vincent Gramoli, Michel Raynal. A Speculation-Friendly Binary Search Tree. [Research Report] PI-1984, 2011, pp.21. ⟨inria-00618995v2⟩
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