CSC/ECE 506 Spring 2012/10b sr
Use of consistency models in current multiprocessors
Introduction
Consistency in current-day multiprocessors
Consistency models used
- address translation aware memory consistency
- causal consistency
- delta consistency
- entry consistency
- eventual consistency
- fork consistency
- linearizability (also known as strict or atomic consistency)
- one-copy serializability
- PRAM consistency (also known as FIFO consistency)
- release consistency
- sequential consistency
- serializability
- vector-field consistency
- weak consistency
- strong consistency