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EUC
2008
Springer
15 years 15 days ago
2008
Springer
Multithreading is an important software modularization technique. However, it can incur substantial overheads, especially in processors where the amount of architecturally visible...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
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...
IPPS
1993
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
1993
IEEE
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...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
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EXPCS
2007
15 years 2 months ago
2007
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...