Lockmeter: Highly-informative instrumentation for spin locks in the Linux® Kernel

Proceedings of 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference 2000, ALS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Bryant, Ray ^a   Hawkes, John ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

CACHE COHERENCY; CACHE MISS; INTERPROCESSORS; LINUX KERNEL; LOCK CONTENTIONS; SPIN LOCK;

LINUX;

EID: 85019201168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. [IBM1] United States Patent 5,872, 913, “System and Method for Low Overhead, High Precision Measurements using State Transitions,” Robert F. Berry et al.
4. [IBM1A] United States Patent 5,920,689, “System and Method for Low Overhead, High Precision Measurements using State Transitions,” Robert F. Berry et al.
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