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ISCAPDCS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Utilization of Separate Caches to Eliminate Cache Pollution Caused by Memory Management Functions
Data intensive service functions such as memory allocation/de-allocation, data prefetching, and data relocation can pollute processor cache in conventional systems since the same ...
Mehran Rezaei, Krishna M. Kavi
USENIX
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Page Replacement in Linux 2.4 Memory Management
While the virtual memory management in Linux 2.2 has decent performance for many workloads, it suffers from a number of problems. The first part of this paper contains a descripti...
Rik van Riel
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Compacting Real-Time Memory Management System
We propose a real real-time memory management system called Compact-fit that offers both time and space predictability. Compact-fit is a compacting memory management system for al...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes P...
ASPLOS
1987
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures
This paper describes the design and implementation of virtual memory management within the CMU Mach Operating System and the experiences gained by the Mach kernel group in porting...
Richard F. Rashid, Avadis Tevanian, Michael Young,...
WDAG
1995
Springer
102views Algorithms» more  WDAG 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Larchant-RDOSS: a Distributed Shared Persistent Memory and its Garbage Collector
Larchant-RDOSS is a distributed shared memory that persists on reliable storage across process lifetimes. Memory management is automatic: including consistent caching of data and ...
Marc Shapiro, Paulo Ferreira
ASPLOS
1992
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Application-Controlled Physical Memory using External Page-Cache Management
Next generation computer systems will have gigabytes of physical memory and processors in the 200 MIPS range or higher. While this trend suggests that memory management for most p...
Kieran Harty, David R. Cheriton
IWMM
1998
Springer
117views Hardware» more  IWMM 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Guaranteeing Non-Disruptiveness and Real-Time Deadlines in an Incremental Garbage Collector
For Garbage Collection (GC) to be a generally accepted means of memory management it is required to prove its efficiency. This paper presents a scheme that guarantees that an incr...
Fridtjof Siebert
POPL
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Typed Memory Management in a Calculus of Capabilities
An increasing number of systems rely on programming language technology to ensure safety and security of low-level code. Unfortunately, these systems typically rely on a complex, ...
Karl Crary, David Walker, J. Gregory Morrisett
CASES
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Eliminating external fragmentation in a non-moving garbage collector for Java
Fragmentation can cause serious loss of memory in systems that are using dynamic memory management. Any useful memory management system must therefore provide means to limit fragm...
Fridtjof Siebert
CASES
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A dynamic memory management unit for embedded real-time system-on-a-chip
Dealing with global on-chip memory allocation/de-allocation in a dynamic yet deterministic way is an important issue for upcoming billion transistor multiprocessor System-on-a-Chi...
Mohamed Shalan, Vincent John Mooney III