Multithreading is an important software modularization technique. However, it can incur substantial overheads, especially in processors where the amount of architecturally visible...
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...
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...
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
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...