On helping and stacks

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Abstract

A concurrent algorithm exhibits helping when one process performs work on behalf of other processes. More formally, helping is observed when the order of some operation in a linearization is fixed by a step of another process. In this paper, we show that no wait-free linearizable implementation of a stack using read, write, compare&swap and fetch&add operations can be help-free, correcting a mistake in an earlier proof by Censor-Hillel et al.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetworked Systems - 6th International Conference, NETYS 2018, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsAndreas Podelski, François Taïani
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages107-121
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030055288
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2018 - Essaouira, Morocco
Duration: 9 May 201811 May 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11028 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2018
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityEssaouira
Period9/05/1811/05/18

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