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SIGOPS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
PipesFS: fast Linux I/O in the unix tradition
This paper presents PipesFS, an I/O architecture for Linux 2.6 that increases I/O throughput and adds support for heterogeneous parallel processors by (1) collapsing many I/O inte...
Willem de Bruijn, Herbert Bos
COMPSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Managing Libre Software Distributions under a Product Line Approach
Software product lines have already proven to be a successful methodology for building and maintaining a collection of similar software products, based on a common architecture. H...
Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Rafael Capilla, J...
ICSM
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Michael W. Godfrey, Qiang Tu
COMSWARE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A measurement study of the Linux TCP/IP stack performance and scalability on SMP systems
The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. In this paper, we present a...
Shourya P. Bhattacharya, Varsha Apte
RTAS
2002
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
A Measurement-Based Analysis of the Real-Time Performance of Linux
This paper presents an experimental study of the latency behavior of the Linux OS. We identify major sources of latency in the kernel with the goal of providing real-time performa...
Luca Abeni, Ashvin Goel, Charles Krasic, Jim Snow,...