Ensuring the semantic and topological correctness of spatial data is an important requirement in geographical information systems and spatial database systems in order to preserve ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
The performance of threads is limited primarily by the overhead of two kinds of switching: vertical switching (user/kernel domain switching) and horizontal switching (context swit...
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
Read-copy update (RCU) allows lock-free read-only access to data structures that are concurrently modified on SMP systems. Despite the concurrent modifications, read-only access...
Andrea Arcangeli, Mingming Cao, Paul E. McKenney, ...