Sciweavers

97 search results - page 10 / 20
» User-Level Management of Kernel Memory
Sort
View
MICRO
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Architecture Support for Improving Bulk Memory Copying and Initialization Performance
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao, Ravishankar I...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
214views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
HMTT: a platform independent full-system memory trace monitoring system
Memory trace analysis is an important technology for architecture research, system software (i.e., OS, compiler) optimization, and application performance improvements. Many appro...
Yungang Bao, Mingyu Chen, Yuan Ruan, Li Liu, Jianp...
VMCAI
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Shape Analysis of Low-Level C with Overlapping Structures
Abstract. Device drivers often keep data in multiple data structures simultaneously while embedding list or tree related records into the records containing the actual data; this r...
Jörg Kreiker, Helmut Seidl, Vesal Vojdani
IISWC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Characterization of Scientific Workloads on Systems with Multi-Core Processors
Multi-core processors are planned for virtually all next-generation HPC systems. In a preliminary evaluation of AMD Opteron Dual-Core processor systems, we investigated the scaling...
Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Jeffery A. Kueh...