@inproceedings{2d11e31a30254e418cf13b571bfd5b5d,
title = "Verifying linearizability with Hindsight",
abstract = "We present a proof of safety and linearizability of a highly-concurrent optimistic set algorithm. The key step in our proof is the Hindsight Lemma, which allows a thread to infer the existence of a global state in which its operation can be linearized based on limited local atomic observations about the shared state. The Hindsight Lemma allows us to avoid one of the most complex and non-intuitive steps in reasoning about highly concurrent algorithms: considering the linearization point of an operation to be in a different thread than the one executing it. The Hindsight Lemma assumes that the algorithm maintains certain simple invariants which are resilient to interference, and which can themselves be verified using purely thread-local proofs. As a consequence, the lemma allows us to unlock a perhaps-surprising intuition: a high degree of interference makes non-trivial highly-concurrent algorithms in some cases much easier to verify than less concurrent ones.",
keywords = "Hindsight, Linearizability, Optimistic concurrency, Wait- freedom",
author = "O'Hearn, {Peter W.} and Noam Rinetzky and Vechev, {Martin T.} and Eran Yahav and Greta Yorsh",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1145/1835698.1835722",
language = "אנגלית",
isbn = "9781605588889",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing",
pages = "85--94",
booktitle = "PODC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing",
note = "29th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2010 ; Conference date: 25-07-2010 Through 28-07-2010",
}