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EUROMICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Tradeoffs for Static Allocation of Zero-Copy Buffers
Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...
Pål Halvorsen, Espen Jorde, Karl-André...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fast byte-granularity software fault isolation
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
SASP
2009
IEEE
222views Hardware» more  SASP 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
A memory optimization technique for software-managed scratchpad memory in GPUs
—With the appearance of massively parallel and inexpensive platforms such as the G80 generation of NVIDIA GPUs, more real-life applications will be designed or ported to these pl...
Maryam Moazeni, Alex A. T. Bui, Majid Sarrafzadeh
HPCA
2001
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Reevaluating Online Superpage Promotion with Hardware Support
fipical translation lookaside buffers (TLBs)can map a far smaller region of memory than application footprints demand, and the cost of handling TLB misses therefore limits the per...
Zhen Fang, Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. ...
SBACPAD
2004
IEEE
105views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Cache Filtering Techniques to Reduce the Negative Impact of Useless Speculative Memory References on Processor Performance
High-performance processors employ aggressive speculation and prefetching techniques to increase performance. Speculative memory references caused by these techniques sometimes br...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...