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HPCC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamically Filtering Thread-Local Variables in Lazy-Lazy Hardware Transactional Memory
Abstract--Transactional Memory (TM) is an emerging technology which promises to make parallel programming easier. However, to be efficient, underlying TM system should protect only...
Sutirtha Sanyal, Sourav Roy, Adrián Cristal...
COMSWARE
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A measurement study of the Linux TCP/IP stack performance and scalability on SMP systems
The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. In this paper, we present a...
Shourya P. Bhattacharya, Varsha Apte
KBSE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Model checking concurrent linux device drivers
toolkit demonstrates that predicate abstraction enables automated verification of real world Windows device Our predicate abstraction-based tool DDVerify enables the automated ve...
Thomas Witkowski, Nicolas Blanc, Daniel Kroening, ...
JSS
2007
126views more  JSS 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Fine-grain analysis of common coupling and its application to a Linux case study
Common coupling (sharing global variables across modules) is widely accepted as a measure of software quality and maintainability; a low level of common coupling is necessary (but...
Dror G. Feitelson, Tokunbo O. S. Adeshiyan, Daniel...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...