Yi Liu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method for blocking and awakening transaction threads in a hardware transactional memory system, which comprises the following steps of: arranging a transaction thread register in transaction supporting hardware and recording an identifier of a currently-executed transaction thread in the transactional thread register; when a blocked transaction thread is rescheduled and re-execussed and if the blocked thread is the same as the thread identifier in the register, continuing to submit the transaction; and if a blocked thread identifier is different from the registered transaction thread identifier, clearing a current transaction field and re