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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 6 months ago
2012
ACM
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2006
ACM
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
SP
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract—Modern automobiles are no longer mere mechanical devices; they are pervasively monitored and controlled by dozens of digital computers coordinated via internal vehicular...
USENIX
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...