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RTAS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Real-Time Synchronization on Multiprocessors: To Block or Not to Block, to Suspend or Spin?
In the domain of multiprocessor real-time systems, there has been a wealth of recent work on scheduling, but relatively little work on the equally-important topic of synchronizati...
Björn B. Brandenburg, John M. Calandrino, Aar...
ECRTS
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Reader-Writer Synchronization for Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
Reader preference, writer preference, and task-fair readerwriter locks are shown to cause undue blocking in multiprocessor real-time systems. A new phase-fair reader-writer lock i...
Björn B. Brandenburg, James H. Anderson
RTSS
1995
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Scalable Real-Time Synchronization Protocol for Distributed Systems
A distributed protocol is proposed for the synchronization of real-time tasks that have variable resource requirements. The protocol is simple to implement and is intended for lar...
Injong Rhee, Graham R. Martin
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Improving the FreeBSD SMP Implementation
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
Greg Lehey