FlexSC: Flexible system call scheduling with exception-less system calls

Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 33-46

  Soares, Livio ^a   Stumm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINUX; POLLUTION; SCHEDULING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DATA-BASE SERVERS; INSTRUCTION CACHES; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; POLLUTION EFFECTS; SERVER APPLICATIONS; SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEM;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85076882736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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