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A Thread Facility Based on User/Kernel Cooperation in the XERO Operating System
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The mechanisms for executing concurrent applications proposed so far fall into one of three groups: processes, kernel-level threads, and user-level threads. Each of them is insufficient in terms of either parallelism, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, or costs of operations such as creation, switching, and termination. A thread facility in the XERO operating system overcomes this problem and provides a uniform framework for executing concurrent applications. To achieve parallelism of threads, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, and fast thread operations, the operating system kernel and a thread management module in a user address space manage threads cooperatively. We implemented the cooperative thread management mechanism and measured its performance to examine the effectiveness of our approach.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E75-D No.5 pp.627-634
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Shigekazu INOHARA, Kazuhiko KATO, Atsunobu NARITA, Takashi MASUDA, "A Thread Facility Based on User/Kernel Cooperation in the XERO Operating System" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E75-D, no. 5, pp. 627-634, September 1992, doi: .
Abstract: The mechanisms for executing concurrent applications proposed so far fall into one of three groups: processes, kernel-level threads, and user-level threads. Each of them is insufficient in terms of either parallelism, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, or costs of operations such as creation, switching, and termination. A thread facility in the XERO operating system overcomes this problem and provides a uniform framework for executing concurrent applications. To achieve parallelism of threads, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, and fast thread operations, the operating system kernel and a thread management module in a user address space manage threads cooperatively. We implemented the cooperative thread management mechanism and measured its performance to examine the effectiveness of our approach.
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AU - Shigekazu INOHARA
AU - Kazuhiko KATO
AU - Atsunobu NARITA
AU - Takashi MASUDA
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AB - The mechanisms for executing concurrent applications proposed so far fall into one of three groups: processes, kernel-level threads, and user-level threads. Each of them is insufficient in terms of either parallelism, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, or costs of operations such as creation, switching, and termination. A thread facility in the XERO operating system overcomes this problem and provides a uniform framework for executing concurrent applications. To achieve parallelism of threads, the flexibility to combine separately developed programs at run-time, and fast thread operations, the operating system kernel and a thread management module in a user address space manage threads cooperatively. We implemented the cooperative thread management mechanism and measured its performance to examine the effectiveness of our approach.
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