Sciweavers

41 search results - page 1 / 9
» Reducing Context Switch Overhead with Compiler-Assisted Thre...
Sort
View
78
Voted
EUC
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Reducing Context Switch Overhead with Compiler-Assisted Threading
Multithreading is an important software modularization technique. However, it can incur substantial overheads, especially in processors where the amount of architecturally visible...
Pekka Jääskeläinen, Pertti Kellom&a...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Compiler assisted dynamic management of registers for network processors
Modern network processors support high levels of parallelism in packet processing by supporting multiple threads that execute on a micro-engine. Threads switch context upon encoun...
R. Collins, Fernando Alegre, Xiaotong Zhuang, Sant...
IPPS
1993
IEEE
15 years 2 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
MICRO
2005
IEEE
140views Hardware» more  MICRO 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Helper Threaded Prefetching on the Sun UltraSPARC CMP Processor
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
Jiwei Lu, Abhinav Das, Wei-Chung Hsu, Khoa Nguyen,...
EXPCS
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Context switch overheads for Linux on ARM platforms
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...