Hardware support for spin management in overcommitted virtual machines

Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques - Conference Proceedings, PACT

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 124-133

  Wells, Philip M ^a   Chakraborty, Koushik ^a   Sohi, Gurindar S ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Chip multiprocessors; Synchronization overhead; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION OVERHEAD; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL PROCESSORS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; THROUGHPUT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34247114369     PISSN: 1089795X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1152154.1152176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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