UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
The routing architecture of the original 4.4BSD [3] kernel has been deployed successfully without major design modification for over 15 years. In the unified routing architectur...
Modern programming languages often include complex mechanisms for dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection. These features drive the need for more efficient implementation ...
Interactivity in transport protocol can greatly benefit transport friendly applications. We envision if a transport mechanism, which is interactive and can provide event notificat...
Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...