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EMSOFT
2006
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
A superblock-based flash translation layer for NAND flash memory
In NAND flash-based storage systems, an intermediate software layer called a flash translation layer (FTL) is usually employed to hide the erase-before-write characteristics of NA...
Jeong-Uk Kang, Heeseung Jo, Jinsoo Kim, Joonwon Le...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient Concurrency
Transactional memory is being advanced as an alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization for concurrent programming. Transactional memory simplifies the programming mode...
Takayuki Usui, Reimer Behrends, Jacob Evans, Yanni...
CACM
2011
96views more  CACM 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Why STM can be more than a research toy
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
VLDB
1993
ACM
107views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
14 years 20 days ago
Recovering from Main-Memory Lapses
Recovery activities, like logging, checkpointing and restart, are used to restore a database to a consistent state after a system crash has occurred. Recovery related overhead is ...
H. V. Jagadish, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan
IWMM
2007
Springer
110views Hardware» more  IWMM 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Path: page access tracking to improve memory management
Traditionally, operating systems use a coarse approximation of memory accesses to implement memory management algorithms by monitoring page faults or scanning page table entries. ...
Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael Stumm, Thomas Wa...