This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
The workloads in modern Chip-multiprocessors (CMP) are becoming increasingly diversified, creating different resource demands on hardware substrate. It is necessary to allocate h...
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...
We present a methodology for a power-optimized, software-controlled Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) organization. A highly reduced number of Virtual Page Number (VPN) bits suf...
Region-based memory management offers several important potential advantages over garbage collection, including real-time performance, better data locality, and more efficient us...