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The Linux Kernel: A Challenging Workload for Transactional Memory

Overview The Linux operating system kernel is a large, mature, freely available, and well-tuned concurrent program. As such it is an ideal workload for a transactional memory hardware design. Operating systems need transactional memory for performance scalability, to help maintainability, and to provide services related to transactions to user programs. Most general purpose computing platforms run operating systems, and OS services must be scalable or applications will see the OS as a scalability bottleneck.

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Publisher	University of Texas	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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