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Futex

Known as: 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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Concurrency control

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Review
2016
Review
2016
Futex Scaling for Multi-core Systems
The Linux kernel provides futexes as building blocks for creating userspace synchronization primitives. The main advantage, over… 
2013
2013
Implementation and Performance evaluation 5 Investigation and Improvement on the Impact of TLB misses in Real-Time Systems
Memory protection for real-time systems is needed to ensure safety of the systems, in recent years. The memory management unit… 
2008
2008
Extending futex for kernel to user notification
Threads in reactive applications need to service a multitude of events from different sources such as device drivers… 
2008
2008
DDB: Deadlock Debugger
Writing concurrent software is a challenging task proneto hard to debug errors such as deadlocks. Deadlocks arechallenging to… 
2006
2006
The Need for Asynchronous, Zero-Copy Network I/O Problems and Possible Solutions
The network interfaces provided by today’s OSes severely limit the efficiency of network programs. The kernel copies the data… 
2006
2006
Thread Migration to Improve Synchronization Performance
A number of prior research efforts have investigated thread scheduling mechanisms to enable better reuse of data in a processor’s… 
2004
2004
Issues with Selected Scalability Features of the 2 . 6 Kernel Dipankar Sarma
The 2.6 LinuxTM kernel has a number of features that improve performance on high-end SMP and NUMA systems. Finer-grain locking is… 
2004
2004
Linux kernel infrastructure for user-level device drivers
Linux 2.5.x has good support now for user-mode device drivers — XFree being the biggest and most obvious — but also there is… 
2004
2004
Issues with Selected Scalability Features of the 2 . 6 Kernel Dipankar Sarma Linux
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… 
1981
1981
On narrow-band spectrum calculation by direct decimation
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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