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USENIX
2003
15 years 5 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
CASES
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A fault tolerant cache architecture for sub 500mV operation: resizable data composer cache (RDC-cache)
In this paper we introduce Resizable Data Composer-Cache (RDC-Cache). This novel cache architecture operates correctly at sub 500 mV in 65 nm technology tolerating large number of...
Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Ahmed M. Eltawil, F...
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POPL
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
High-level small-step operational semantics for transactions
Software transactions have received significant attention as a way to simplify shared-memory concurrent programming, but insufficient focus has been given to the precise meaning o...
Katherine F. Moore, Dan Grossman
SOFTWARE
2002
15 years 4 months ago
EROS: A Principle-Driven Operating System from the Ground Up
certain kinds of abstraction that modern operating systems generally include and seek a design that maps directly onto the features that modern hardware implementations provide; ve...
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Norman Hardy
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang