Brief Announcement: Recoverable and Detectable Self-Implementations of Swap

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    Abstract

    Recoverable algorithms tolerate failures and recoveries of processes by using non-volatile memory. Of particular interest are self-implementations of key operations, in which a recoverable operation is implemented from its non-recoverable counterpart (in addition to reads and writes). This paper presents two self-implementations of the SWAP operation. One works in the system-wide failures model, where all processes fail and recover together, and the other in the independent failures model, where each process crashes and recovers independently of the other processes. Both algorithms are wait-free in crash-free executions, but their recovery code is blocking. We prove that this is inherent for the independent failures model. The impossibility result is proved for implementations of distinguishable operations using interfering functions, and in particular, it applies to a recoverable self-implementation of swap.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2023
    EditorsRotem Oshman
    PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
    ISBN (Electronic)9783959773010
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Oct 2023
    Event37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2023 - L'Aquila, Italy
    Duration: 10 Oct 202312 Oct 2023

    Publication series

    NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
    Volume281
    ISSN (Print)1868-8969

    Conference

    Conference37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2023
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityL'Aquila
    Period10/10/2312/10/23

    Keywords

    • Persistent memory
    • detectablitly
    • non-volatile memory
    • recoverable objects

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software

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