EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
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...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
In this paper, we present the design of a performance isolation benchmark that quantifies the degree to which a virtualization system limits the impact of a misbehaving virtual ma...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Utility programs, which perform similar and largely independent operations on a sequence of inputs, include such common applications as compilers, interpreters, and document parse...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Measuring the indirect cost of context switch is a challenging problem. In this paper, we show our results of experimentally quantifying the indirect cost of context switch using ...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
The modeling of power and thermal behavior of processors requires challenging validation processes, which may be complex and undependable. In order to ameliorate some of the diffi...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
We present an active measurement study of the routing dynamics induced by AS-path prepending, a common method for controlling the inbound traffic of a multi-homed ISP. Unlike oth...