Thu 19 Nov 2020 01:40 - 02:00 at SPLASH-I - W-4 Chair(s): Sophia Drossopoulou, Jan Vitek
Modern highly-concurrent search data structures, such as search trees, obtain multi-core scalability and performance by having operations traverse the data structure without any synchronization. As a result, however, these algorithms are notoriously difficult to prove linearizable, which requires identifying a point in time in which the traversal's result is correct. The problem is that traversing the data structure as it undergoes modifications leads to complex behaviors, necessitating intricate reasoning about all interleavings of reads by traversals and writes mutating the data structure.
In this paper, we present a general proof technique for proving unsynchronized traversals correct in a significantly simpler manner, compared to typical concurrent reasoning and prior proof techniques. Our framework relies only on sequential properties of traversals and on a conceptually simple and widely-applicable condition about the ways an algorithm's writes mutate the data structure. Establishing that a target data structure satisfies our condition requires only simple concurrent reasoning, without considering interactions of writes and reads. This reasoning can be further simplified by using our framework.
To demonstrate our technique, we apply it to prove several interesting and challenging concurrent binary search trees: the logical-ordering AVL tree, the Citrus tree, and the full contention-friendly tree. Both the logical-ordering tree and the full contention-friendly tree are beyond the reach of previous approaches targeted at simplifying linearizability proofs.
Wed 18 Nov Times are displayed in time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change
13:00 - 14:20 | W-4OOPSLA at SPLASH-I +12h Chair(s): Justin HsuUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Eric KoskinenStevens Institute of Technology | ||
13:00 20mTalk | Adversarial Examples for Models of Code OOPSLA Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:20 20mTalk | Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning OOPSLA Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Proving Highly-Concurrent Traversals Correct OOPSLA Yotam M. Y. FeldmanTel Aviv University, Artem KhyzhaTel Aviv University, Constantin EneaUniversity of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Adam MorrisonTel Aviv University, Aleksandar NanevskiIMDEA Software Institute, Noam RinetzkyTel Aviv University, Sharon ShohamTel Aviv University Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
14:00 20mTalk | How Do Programmers Use Unsafe Rust? OOPSLA Vytautas AstrauskasETH Zurich, Christoph MathejaETH Zurich, Federico PoliETH Zurich, Peter MüllerETH Zurich, Alexander J. SummersUniversity of British Columbia Link to publication DOI Media Attached |
Thu 19 Nov Times are displayed in time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change
01:00 - 02:20 | W-4OOPSLA at SPLASH-I Chair(s): Sophia DrossopoulouImperial College London, Jan VitekNortheastern University / Czech Technical University | ||
01:00 20mTalk | Adversarial Examples for Models of Code OOPSLA Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
01:20 20mTalk | Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning OOPSLA Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
01:40 20mTalk | Proving Highly-Concurrent Traversals Correct OOPSLA Yotam M. Y. FeldmanTel Aviv University, Artem KhyzhaTel Aviv University, Constantin EneaUniversity of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Adam MorrisonTel Aviv University, Aleksandar NanevskiIMDEA Software Institute, Noam RinetzkyTel Aviv University, Sharon ShohamTel Aviv University Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
02:00 20mTalk | How Do Programmers Use Unsafe Rust? OOPSLA Vytautas AstrauskasETH Zurich, Christoph MathejaETH Zurich, Federico PoliETH Zurich, Peter MüllerETH Zurich, Alexander J. SummersUniversity of British Columbia Link to publication DOI Media Attached |