===== Scheduling Transactions =====

Transactional memories are typically speculative and rely on contention managers to cure 
conflicts. This work explores a complementary approach that prevents conflicts by scheduling 
transactions according to predictions on their access sets. We developed Shrink, a scheduler that
(a) bases its prediction on the access 
patterns of the past transactions from the same threads, and (b) uses a novel heuristic, which we 
call serialization affinity, to schedule transactions with a probability proportional to the current 
amount of contention.

The following files are available for download:
  * Shrink for SwissTM {{swisstm_shrink.tar.gz}}
  * Shrink for TinySTM {{tinystm_shrink.tar.gz}}