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RTAS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Real-Time Synchronization on Multiprocessors: To Block or Not to Block, to Suspend or Spin?
In the domain of multiprocessor real-time systems, there has been a wealth of recent work on scheduling, but relatively little work on the equally-important topic of synchronizati...
Björn B. Brandenburg, John M. Calandrino, Aar...
ECRTS
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Reader-Writer Synchronization for Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
Reader preference, writer preference, and task-fair readerwriter locks are shown to cause undue blocking in multiprocessor real-time systems. A new phase-fair reader-writer lock i...
Björn B. Brandenburg, James H. Anderson
RTSS
1995
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Scalable Real-Time Synchronization Protocol for Distributed Systems
A distributed protocol is proposed for the synchronization of real-time tasks that have variable resource requirements. The protocol is simple to implement and is intended for lar...
Injong Rhee, Graham R. Martin
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