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IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Compiling for stream processing
This paper describes a compiler for stream programs that efficiently schedules computational kernels and stream memory operations, and allocates on-chip storage. Our compiler uses...
Abhishek Das, William J. Dally, Peter R. Mattson
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
David R. Cheriton, Kenneth J. Duda
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 1 days ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang
IPPS
1993
IEEE
14 years 20 days ago
"Unstable Threads" Kernel Interface for Minimizing the Overhead of Thread Switching
The performance of threads is limited primarily by the overhead of two kinds of switching: vertical switching (user/kernel domain switching) and horizontal switching (context swit...
Shigekazu Inohara, Kazuhiko Kato, Takashi Masuda
FAST
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chi...