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USENIX Annual Technical Conference (NO 98), 1998
Abstract
A Transactional Memory Service in an Extensible Operating System
Yasushi Saito and Brian Bershad
University of Washington
Abstract
This paper describes Rhino, a transactional memory service implemented on
top of the SPIN operating system. Rhino is implemented as an
extension that runs in SPIN kernel's address space. We discuss
how the extension structure of Rhino can solve performance
problems previously unavoidable in traditional systems, and we
quantify its benefits. We also introduce three alternative buffer
management schemes and study their
performance under various workloads.
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