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(Dis)Advantages of Lock-free Synchronization Mechanisms for Multicore Embedded Systems

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Milad Chatrangoon,

Nazanin JahaniAuthors Info & Claims

ICPP Workshops '19: Workshop Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/3339186.3339191

Published: 05 August 2019 Publication History

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Embedded systems show a tendency of migrating to multicore processors. However, to fully use the potential of multicore processors, it is necessary to partition software into threads that execute concurrently and communicate using shared memory. In order to ensure the correctness and validity of shared data, threads need to synchronize their accesses. Currently prevailing lock-based synchronization introduces new challenges, as the hard-to-predict effect on the worst-case execution time seems to be most severe for embedded systems. Synchronization without locks (mainly lock-free) potentially offers many advantages over lock-based synchronization. In this paper, we investigate relevant aspects of embedded software systems affected by synchronization, including the testing process. We present conclusions in favor of and against migration to lock-free synchronization, including guidelines to help quantify the risks, and the results of applying testing tools to find concurrency bugs in software with lock-free synchronization. We look at the migration from the architectural point of view.

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Index Terms

(Dis)Advantages of Lock-free Synchronization Mechanisms for Multicore Embedded Systems
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
      1. Embedded software
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques

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Klenk KMoayeri MGuo JClark MSpiteri R(2024)Mitigating synchronization bottlenecks in high-performance actor-model-based softwareSC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00168(1274-1287)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00168
Jahić JDoganci VGehring H(2022)CASA: An Approach for Exposing and Documenting Concurrency-Related Software PropertiesEmbedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation10.1007/978-3-031-15074-6_9(139-154)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-15074-6_9
Pourjafarian MJahic J(2021)ArchViMP – a Framework for Automatic Extraction of Concurrency-related Software Architectural Properties50th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshop10.1145/3458744.3473349(1-10)Online publication date: 9-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3458744.3473349

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