Reply To: Memory

Using the L1 as the write set makes sense as the normal coherency protocol informs you of conflicts. But, how is this exposed to the SW? AFAIR, OCC needs Begin/Modify/Validate/Rollback operations. Modify is easy – just normal stores. But there seem to be no way around some form of HW support for Validate, which means some sort of explicit Begin. It also seems very hard for SW to safely do a Rollback, preventing another thread from seeing the middle (muddled) state of a transaction. So does the Mill have something similar to Intel’s RTM (explicit begin/end transaction instructions), handling the Begin/Validate/Rollback operations?