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SIGOPS
2008
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Power management in the EPOS system
Power management strategies for embedded systems typically rely on static, application driven deactivation of components (e.g. sleep, suspend), or on dynamic voltage and frequency...
Geovani Ricardo Wiedenhoft, Lucas Francisco Wanner...
SIGOPS
2008
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Evaluation of interrupt handling timeliness in real-time Linux operating systems
Several real-time Linux extensions are available nowadays. Two of those extensions that have received special attention recently are Preempt-RT and Xenomai. This paper evaluates t...
Paul Regnier, George Lima, Luciano Barreto
SIGOPS
2008
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I/O resource management through system call scheduling
A principal challenge in operating system design is controlling system throughput and responsiveness while maximizing resource utilization. Unlike previous attempts in kernel reso...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald R...
SIGOPS
2008
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Towards distributed storage resource management using flow control
Deployment of shared storage systems is increasing with rapid adoption of virtualization technologies to provide isolation, better management and high utilization of resources. Qu...
Ajay Gulati, Irfan Ahmad
SIGOPS
2008
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virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices
The Linux Kernel currently supports at least 8 distinct virtualization systems: Xen, KVM, VMware's VMI, IBM's System p, IBM's System z, User Mode Linux, lguest and ...
Rusty Russell
SIGOPS
2008
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CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant
CUBIC is a congestion control protocol for TCP (transmission control protocol) and the current default TCP algorithm in Linux. The protocol modifies the linear window growth funct...
Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu
SIGOPS
2008
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PipesFS: fast Linux I/O in the unix tradition
This paper presents PipesFS, an I/O architecture for Linux 2.6 that increases I/O throughput and adds support for heterogeneous parallel processors by (1) collapsing many I/O inte...
Willem de Bruijn, Herbert Bos
SIGOPS
2008
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Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information
The layered design of the Linux operating system hides the liveness of file system data from the underlying block layers. This lack of liveness information prevents the storage sy...
David Boutcher, Abhishek Chandra
SIGOPS
2008
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LAST: locality-aware sector translation for NAND flash memory-based storage systems
As flash memory technologies quickly improve, flashmemory-based storage devices are becoming a viable alternative as a secondary storage solution for general-purpose computing sys...
Sungjin Lee, Dongkun Shin, Young-Jin Kim, Jihong K...