Layered architecture in operating system code is often compromised by execution path-specific customizations such as prefetching, page replacement and scheduling strategies. Paths...
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales, Michael J. Feeley, ...
Non-blocking synchronization has significant advantages over blocking synchronization: however, it has not been used to a significant degree in practice. We designed and implement...
We argue that controlling energy allocation is an increasingly useful and important feature for operating systems, especially on mobile devices. We present two new low-level ions ...
Arjun Roy, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Phili...
A vertically structured Operating System is one in which neither the “kernel” nor “servers” perform work on behalf of applications – the former because it exists only to...
Richard Black, Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Neil ...
This paper presents our solutions to some problems we encountered in an ongoing attempt to verify the micro-hypervisor currently developed within the Robin project. The problems t...