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USENIX
1994
13 years 10 months ago
The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of...
Jeff Bonwick
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Comprehensive kernel instrumentation via dynamic binary translation
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a powerful technique that enables fine-grained monitoring and manipulation of an existing program binary. At the user level, it has been emplo...
Peter Feiner, Angela Demke Brown, Ashvin Goel
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Scheduling support for transactional memory contention management
Transactional Memory (TM) is considered as one of the most promising paradigms for developing concurrent applications. TM has been shown to scale well on multiple cores when the d...
Walther Maldonado, Patrick Marlier, Pascal Felber,...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Application/Kernel Cooperation Towards the Efficient Execution of Shared-Memory Parallel Java Codes
In this paper we propose mechanisms to improve the performance of parallel Java applications executing on multiprogrammed shared-memory multiprocessors. The proposal is based on a...
Jordi Guitart, Xavier Martorell, Jordi Torres, Edu...
USENIX
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Page Replacement in Linux 2.4 Memory Management
While the virtual memory management in Linux 2.2 has decent performance for many workloads, it suffers from a number of problems. The first part of this paper contains a descripti...
Rik van Riel