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USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the FreeBSD SMP Implementation
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
Greg Lehey
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Optimizing the BSD routing system for parallel processing
The routing architecture of the original 4.4BSD [3] kernel has been deployed successfully without major design modification for over 15 years. In the unified routing architectur...
Qing Li, Kip Macy
CAL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Page-based Hybrid (Software-Hardware) Dynamic Memory Allocator
Modern programming languages often include complex mechanisms for dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection. These features drive the need for more efficient implementation ...
Wentong Li, Saraju P. Mohanty, Krishna M. Kavi
ISCC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Symbiotic Streaming of Elastic Traffic on Interactive Transport
Interactivity in transport protocol can greatly benefit transport friendly applications. We envision if a transport mechanism, which is interactive and can provide event notificat...
Javed I. Khan, Raid Zaghal, Qiong Gu
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Practical, Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages
Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...