Empirical studies of competitve spinning for a shared-memory multiprocessor

Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 41-55

  Karlin, Anna R ^a   Li, Kai ^b   Manasse, Mark S ^a   Owicki, Susan ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON OPERATIONS; COMPETITIVE STRATEGY; MULTIPROCESSOR PROGRAMS; OFF-LINE ALGORITHM; PROGRAM EXECUTION; PROGRAM PERFORMANCE; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR; SYNCHRONIZATION STRATEGIES;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 70450049370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/121132.286599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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