While the virtual memory management in Linux 2.2 has decent performance for many workloads, it suffers from a number of problems. The first part of this paper contains a descripti...
This paper proposes new network interface controller (NIC) designs that take advantage of integration with the host CPU to provide increased flexibility for operating system kerne...
Nathan L. Binkert, Ali G. Saidi, Steven K. Reinhar...
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
Cluster applications that process large amounts of data, such as parallel scientific or multimedia applications, are likely to cause swapping on individual cluster nodes. These ap...
Tia Newhall, Sean Finney, Kuzman Ganchev, Michael ...