Analysis and measurement of the effect of kernel locks in SMP systems

DOI10.1002/CPE.551MaRDI QIDQ4790980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Akihiro Kaieda, Yasuichi Nakayama, Atsuhiro Tanaka, Takashi Horikawa, Toshiyasu Kurasugi, Issei Kino

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.551

zbMATH Keywords

performance evaluationoperating systemsparallel programskernel lockSMP systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computing methodologies and applications (68U99) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Theory of compilers and interpreters (68N20) Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.) (68N19)

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• Approximation methods for two-layer queueing models

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• The system-on-a-chip lock cache
• Lesser Bear -- a light-weight process library for SMP computers

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• Lesser Bear

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