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1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
David R. Cheriton, Kenneth J. Duda
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The Design and Evaluation of a Shared Object System for Distributed Memory Machines
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space ...
Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Implementation and Performance of Application-Controlled File Caching
Traditional le system implementations do not allow applications to control le caching replacement decisions. We have implemented two-level replacement, a scheme that allows appl...
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Distributed Filaments: Efficient Fine-Grain Parallelism on a Cluster of Workstations
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Gregory R. A...