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EUC
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Reducing Context Switch Overhead with Compiler-Assisted Threading
Multithreading is an important software modularization technique. However, it can incur substantial overheads, especially in processors where the amount of architecturally visible...
Pekka Jääskeläinen, Pertti Kellom&a...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Compiler assisted dynamic management of registers for network processors
Modern network processors support high levels of parallelism in packet processing by supporting multiple threads that execute on a micro-engine. Threads switch context upon encoun...
R. Collins, Fernando Alegre, Xiaotong Zhuang, Sant...
IPPS
1993
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
"Unstable Threads" Kernel Interface for Minimizing the Overhead of Thread Switching
The performance of threads is limited primarily by the overhead of two kinds of switching: vertical switching (user/kernel domain switching) and horizontal switching (context swit...
Shigekazu Inohara, Kazuhiko Kato, Takashi Masuda
MICRO
2005
IEEE
140views Hardware» more  MICRO 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Helper Threaded Prefetching on the Sun UltraSPARC CMP Processor
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
Jiwei Lu, Abhinav Das, Wei-Chung Hsu, Khoa Nguyen,...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Context switch overheads for Linux on ARM platforms
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...