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ACMMSP
2005
ACM
129views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A locality-improving dynamic memory allocator
In general-purpose applications, most data is dynamically allocated. The memory manager therefore plays a crucial role in application performance by determining the spatial locali...
Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving query I/O performance by permuting and refining block request sequences
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack
STOC
2006
ACM
121views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
On adequate performance measures for paging
Memory management is a fundamental problem in computer architecture and operating systems. We consider a two-level memory system with fast, but small cache and slow, but large mai...
Konstantinos Panagiotou, Alexander Souza
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang
MASCOTS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
PUD-LRU: An Erase-Efficient Write Buffer Management Algorithm for Flash Memory SSD
Flash memory SSDs pose a well-known challenge, that is, the erase-before-write problem. Researchers try to solve this inherent problem from two different angles by either designing...
Jian Hu, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian, Lei Xu