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APCSAC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
User-Level Management of Kernel Memory
Abstract. Kernel memory is a resource that must be managed carefully in order to ensure the efficiency and safety of the system. The use of an inappropriate management policy can w...
Andreas Haeberlen, Kevin Elphinstone
USENIX
1990
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient User-Level File Cache Management on the Sun Vnode Interface
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Tempest and Typhoon: User-Level Shared Memory
Future parallel computers must efficiently execute not only hand-coded applications but also programs written in high-level, parallel programming languages. Today's machines ...
Steven K. Reinhardt, James R. Larus, David A. Wood
IPPS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Semi-User-Level Communication Architecture
This paper introduces semi-user-level communication architecture, a new high-performance light-weighted communication architecture for inter-node communication of clusters. Differ...
Dan Meng, Jie Ma, Jin He, Limin Xiao, Zhiwei Xu