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Futex
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Benaphore
, Kernel futex
, Kernel futexes
In computing, a futex (short for "fast userspace mutex") is a Linux kernel system call that programmers can use to implement basic locking, or as a…
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2020
2020
Turning Futexes Inside-Out: Efficient and Deterministic User Space Synchronization Primitives for Real-Time Systems with IPCP
Alexander Zuepke
Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
2020
Corpus ID: 220273538
In Linux and other operating systems, futexes (fast user space mutexes) are the underlying synchronization primitives to…
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2013
2013
Implementation and Performance evaluation 5 Investigation and Improvement on the Impact of TLB misses in Real-Time Systems
Takuya Ishikawa
2013
Corpus ID: 8294549
Memory protection for real-time systems is needed to ensure safety of the systems, in recent years. The memory management unit…
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2009
2009
OSE emulation on Linux - Performance study
M. Jaberi
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Lunds Tekniska Högskolan
2009
Corpus ID: 64268265
This master thesis aims to optimize an emulator for programs written for an operating system called OSE on Linux. The target…
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2006
2006
The Need for Asynchronous, Zero-Copy Network I/O Problems and Possible Solutions
Ulrich Drepper
2006
Corpus ID: 18478147
The network interfaces provided by today’s OSes severely limit the efficiency of network programs. The kernel copies the data…
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2004
2004
Linux kernel infrastructure for user-level device drivers
P. Chubb
2004
Corpus ID: 18713309
Linux 2.5.x has good support now for user-mode device drivers — XFree being the biggest and most obvious — but also there is…
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2004
2004
Issues with Selected Scalability Features of the 2 . 6 Kernel Dipankar Sarma
Ontario Ottawa
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Canada
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+14 authors
P. McKenney
2004
Corpus ID: 15354920
The 2.6 LinuxTM kernel has a number of features that improve performance on high-end SMP and NUMA systems. Finer-grain locking is…
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2004
2004
Issues with Selected Scalability Features of the 2 . 6 Kernel Dipankar Sarma Linux
Dipankar Sarma
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P. McKenney
2004
Corpus ID: 1841083
The 2.6 kernel has a number of features that improve performance on high-end SMP and NUMA systems. Finer-grain locking is used in…
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2004
2004
I Would Hate User Space Locking If It Weren't That Sexy... 1 a Look at the Requirements
I. Pérez-González
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Bo Hu
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S. Searty
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Adam Li
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David P. Howell
2004
Corpus ID: 15497887
Linux has seen a lot of new features and developments in the last years in order to accommodate better scalability, interactivity…
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1999
1999
Active F ilte rs with Zero T ransfer Function Sensitivity with Respect to the T ime Constants o f Operational Amplifie rs
A. Budak
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G. Wullink
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R. Geiger
1999
Corpus ID: 16812357
Abstmcr-Most second-order RC active filters show II marked dependence on tbe gdn-bnndwidtb product (GB) of operational…
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1981
1981
On narrow-band spectrum calculation by direct decimation
M. Quirk
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Bede Liu
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics…
1981
Corpus ID: 21630078
The frequency spectrum of a long dsta sequence over a narrow band can be efficiently computed by decimating the sequence using…
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