The virtual-to-physical address translation overhead, a major performance bottleneck for
modern workloads, can be effectively alleviated with huge pages. However, since huge …

The purpose of this book is to help you program shared-memory parallel systems without
risking your sanity. Nevertheless, you should think of the information in this book as a …

Read-copy update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism in the Linux™ kernel that
provides significant improvements in multiprocessor scalability by eliminating the writer …

A method, system and computer program product for supporting concurrent updates to a
shared data element group while preserving group integrity on behalf of one or more …

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Slingwine et al. 5,727,209 A 3/1998 Slingwine et al. 6,219,690 B1 4/2001 Slingwine et al …

(57) ABSTRACT A technique for improving the performance of RCU-based searches and
updates to a shared data element group where readers must see consistent data with …

6,173.375 B1* 1/2001 RE No. 711 152 technique if the data processing system is a
uniprocessor 6.219, 690 B1 4/2001 Slingwine et al. system. The grace period detection …

6,886, 162 B1 4, 2005 McK enced. Uncommon case non-local quiescent state tracking
6,996,812 B2 2, 2006 NERE may be performed using non-local multi-reader state infor …

There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux™ over the
past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a large …

Although real-time operating systems and applications have been available for multicore
systems for some years, shared-memory parallel systems still pose some severe challenges …