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USENIX
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Page Replacement in Linux 2.4 Memory Management
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...
Rik van Riel
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Integrated network interfaces for high-bandwidth TCP/IP
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
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...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System
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...
EUROPAR
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Nswap: A Network Swapping Module for Linux Clusters
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 ...