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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
ELI: bare-metal performance for I/O virtualization
Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device assignm...
Abel Gordon, Nadav Amit, Nadav Har'El, Muli Ben-Ye...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Relyzer: exploiting application-level fault equivalence to analyze application resiliency to transient faults
Future microprocessors need low-cost solutions for reliable operation in the presence of failure-prone devices. A promising approach is to detect hardware faults by deploying low-...
Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Sarita V. Adve, Helia Naei...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Understanding modern device drivers
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...
Asim Kadav, Michael M. Swift
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Path-exploration lifting: hi-fi tests for lo-fi emulators
Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specificati...
Lorenzo Martignoni, Stephen McCamant, Pongsin Poos...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
DreamWeaver: architectural support for deep sleep
Numerous data center services exhibit low average utilization leading to poor energy efficiency. Although CPU voltage and frequency scaling historically has been an effective mea...
David Meisner, Thomas F. Wenisch
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 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
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Architectural support for hypervisor-secure virtualization
Virtualization has become a standard part of many computer systems. A key part of virtualization is the all-powerful hypervisor which manages the physical platform and can access ...
Jakub Szefer, Ruby B. Lee
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Chameleon: operating system support for dynamic processors
The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...
Sankaralingam Panneerselvam, Michael M. Swift
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
DejaVu: accelerating resource allocation in virtualized environments
Effective resource management of virtualized environments is a challenging task. State-of-the-art management systems either rely on analytical models or evaluate resource allocati...
Nedeljko Vasic, Dejan M. Novakovic, Svetozar Miuci...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Scalable address spaces using RCU balanced trees
Software developers commonly exploit multicore processors by building multithreaded software in which all threads of an application share a single address space. This shared addre...
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Ze...