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Brief Announcement: Hardware Transactional Storage Class Memory

Emerging persistent memory technologies (generically referred to as Storage Class Memory or SCM) hold tremendous promise for accelerating popular data-management applications like in-memory databases. However, programmers now need to deal with ensuring the atomicity of transactions on SCM-resident data and maintaining consistency between the persistent and in-memory execution orders of concurrent transactions. The problem is specially challenging when high-performance isolation mechanisms like Hardware Transaction Memory (HTM) are used for concurrency control. In this work we show how SCM-based HTM transactions can be ordered correctly using existing CPU instructions, without requiring any changes to existing processor cache hardware or HTM protocols. We describe a method that employs HTM for concurrency control and enforces atomic persistence and consistency with a novel software protocol and back-end external memory controller. In contrast, previous approaches require significant hardware changes to existing processor microarchitectures.