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RTAS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Reservation-Based Interrupt Scheduling
Abstract—Some real-time kernels (such as a recent realtime version of Linux) permit to execute interrupt handlers in dedicated threads, to control their interference on realtime ...
Nicola Manica, Luca Abeni, Luigi Palopoli
USENIX
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems
The ability to checkpoint a running application and restart it later can provide many useful benefits including fault recovery, advanced resources sharing, dynamic load balancing...
Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Handling OS jitter on multicore multithreaded systems
Various studies have shown that OS jitter can degrade parallel program performance considerably at large processor counts. Most sources of system jitter fall broadly into 5 catego...
Pradipta De, Vijay Mann, Umang Mittaly
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Coerced Cache Eviction and discreet mode journaling: Dealing with misbehaving disks
—We present Coerced Cache Eviction (CCE), a new method to force writes to disk in the presence of a disk cache that does not properly obey write-cache configuration or flush re...
Abhishek Rajimwale, Vijay Chidambaram, Deepak Rama...