PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Fairness is an essential requirement of any operating system scheduler. Unfortunately, existing fair scheduling algorithms are either inaccurate or inefficient and non-scalable fo...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Load balancing is a technique which allows efficient parallelization of irregular workloads, and a key component of many applications and parallelizing runtimes. Work-stealing is ...