We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide
coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely …

With this practical book, you will attain a solid understanding of threads and will discover
how to put this powerful mode of programming to work in real-world applications. The …

General-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for resource management
in large-scale servers. Applications lack sufficient control over scheduling and management …

This paper describes hovv two tools that were developed quite independently gained in
power by a well-designed connection between them. The tools are Python, an interpreted …

This article explores memory sharing and protection support in Opal, a single-address-
space operating system designed for wide-address (64-bit) architectures. Opal threads …

Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as
device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example …

This paper provides an introduction to writing concurrent programs with “threads”. A threads
facility allows you to write programs with multiple simultaneous points of execution …

Distributed real-time systems play a very important role in our modern society. They are
used in aircraft control, communication systems, military command and control systems …

Many contemporary operating systems utilize a system call interface between the operating
system and its clients. Increasing numbers of systems are providing low-level mechanisms …

A common operation in multiprocessor programs is acquiring a lock to protect access to
shared data. Typically, the requesting thread is blocked if the lock it needs is held by another …