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1996
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke, Orran Krieger
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking
This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel r...
George C. Necula, Peter Lee
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Online Data-Race Detection via Coherency Guarantees
We present the design and evaluation of an on-thefly data-race-detection technique that handles applications written for the lazy release consistent (LRC) shared memory model. We ...
Dejan Perkovic, Peter J. Keleher
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A Hierarchical CPU Scheduler for Multimedia Operating Systems
The need for supportingvarietyof hard and soft real-time, as well as best effort applications ina multimedia computing environment requires an operating system framework that: (1)...
Pawan Goyal, Xingang Guo, Harrick M. Vin
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...