Using performance reflection in systems software

Proceedings of HotOS 2003 - 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 97-101

  Fowler, Robert ^a   Cox, Alan ^a   Elnikety, Sameh ^b   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY; SCHEDULING;

APPLICATION LEVEL; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; GENERAL SYSTEMS; MEMORY HIERARCHY PERFORMANCE; MODERN PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; SYSTEMS SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84962637308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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