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Performance Evaluation of Concurrent Data Structures

  • Hao Wu
  • Xiaoxiao Yang
  • Joost-Pieter Katoen
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9984)

Abstract

The speed-ups acquired by concurrent programming heavily rely on exploiting highly concurrent data structures. This has led to a variety of coarse-grained and fine-grained locking to lock-free data structures. The performance of such data structures is typically analysed by simulation or implementation. We advocate a model-based approach using probabilistic model checking. The main benefit is that our models can also be used to check the correctness of the data structures. The paper details the approach, and reports on experimental results on several concurrent stacks, queues, and lists. Our analysis yields worst- and best-case bounds on performance metrics such as expected time and probabilities to finish a certain number of operations within a deadline.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Wendelin Serwe for his support in CADP.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Software Modelling and Verification GroupRWTH Aachen UniversityAachenGermany
  2. 2.State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of SoftwareChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina

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