Address translation often emerges as a critical performance bottleneck for virtualized systems and has recently been the impetus for hardware paging mechanisms. These mechanisms ap...
Giang Hoang, Chang Bae, Jack Lange, Lide Zhang, Pe...
Recent improvements in architectural supports for virtualization have extended traditional hardware page walkers to traverse nested page tables. However, current twodimensional (2...
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
For transactional memory (TM) to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any specific hardware implementation. TM systems s...
JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Austen McDonald, Tra...
A trace of a workload’s system calls can be obtained with minimal interference, and can be used to drive repeatable experiments to evaluate system configuration alternatives. R...