Handling OS jitter on multicore multithreaded systems

IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  De, Pradipta ^a   Mann, Vijay ^a   Mittal, Umang ^b  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION THREADS; AVERAGE CASE; CO-SCHEDULING; GANG SCHEDULING; HOLISTIC APPROACH; HYPERVISOR; INTERRUPT HANDLING; KERNEL THREADS; LINUX KERNEL; MICRO KERNEL; MULTI CORE; MULTI-THREADED SYSTEM; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL PROGRAM; POWER ARCHITECTURES; PROCESS MIGRATION; THREAD CACHE; WORST CASE; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

JITTER;

EID: 70450079998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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