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HIPC
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Preemption Adaptivity in Time-Published Queue-Based Spin Locks
Abstract. The proliferation of multiprocessor servers and multithreaded applications has increased the demand for high-performance synchronization. Traditional scheduler-based lock...
Bijun He, William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott
145
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CC
2001
Springer
121views System Software» more  CC 2001»
15 years 9 months ago
Constant-Time Root Scanning for Deterministic Garbage Collection
Root scanning is the task of identifying references to heap objects that are stored outside of the heap itself, in global and local variables and on the execution stack. Root scann...
Fridtjof Siebert
DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Dependability Analysis of Virtual Memory Systems
Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...
SOSP
1993
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Protection Traps and Alternatives for Memory Management of an Object-Oriented Language
Many operating systems allow user programs to specify the protectionlevel (inaccessible, read-only, read-write) of pages in their virtual memory address space, and to handle any p...
Antony L. Hosking, J. Eliot B. Moss
191
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ICDCN
2012
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann