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ER
2007
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Ensuring the Semantic Correctness of Complex Regions
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...
IPPS
1993
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
"Unstable Threads" Kernel Interface for Minimizing the Overhead of Thread Switching
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...
Shigekazu Inohara, Kazuhiko Kato, Takashi Masuda
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM
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...
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Lightweight kernel/user communication for real-time and multimedia applications
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...
USENIX
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel
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, ...