Most operating systems enforce process isolation through hardware protection mechanisms such as memory segmentation, page mapping, and differentiated user and kernel instructions....
The advent of multicores has introduced new challenges for programmers to provide increased performance and software reliability. There has been significant interest in technique...
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...
— During codesign of a system, one still runs into the impedance mismatch between the software and hardware worlds. er identifies the different levels of abstraction of hardware...
Philippe Faes, Mark Christiaens, Dries Buytaert, D...
Software prefetching has been demonstrated as a powerful technique to tolerate long load latencies. However, to be effective, prefetching must target the most critical (frequently...