6.5840 Spring 2023 Paper Questions

For each paper, your assignment is two-fold. Before the start of lecture discussing the paper:

Put your answer in a.txt and question in q.txt. Submit both files via Gradescope.

Lecture 12

6.033 Book. Read just these parts of Chapter 9: 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.6.3. The last two sections (on two-phase locking and distributed two-phase commit) are the most important. The Question: describe a situation where Two-Phase Locking yields higher performance than Simple Locking.


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