Operating systems are complex and their behavior depends on many factors. Source code, if available, does not directly help one to understand the OS's behavior, as the behavi...
Nikolai Joukov, Avishay Traeger, Rakesh Iyer, Char...
In this paper we characterize the latency of the BSD 4.4 alpha implementation of TCP on an ATM network. Latency reduction is a difficult task, and careful analysis is the first st...
Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Chandramohan A. ...
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
This paper presents an experimental study of the latency behavior of the Linux OS. We identify major sources of latency in the kernel with the goal of providing real-time performa...
Luca Abeni, Ashvin Goel, Charles Krasic, Jim Snow,...
The ability to understand the factors contributing to parallel program performance are vital for understanding the impact of machine parameters on the performance of specific app...
Matthew J. Sottile, Vaddadi P. Chandu, David A. Ba...