The interaction of architecture and operating system design
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A machine independent interface for lightweight threads
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The operating system kernel as a secure programmable machine
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The structuring of systems using upcalls
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
First-class user-level threads
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Meeting the application in user space
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
Language- and application-oriented resource management for parallel architectures
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
CONPAR 90/VAPP IV Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing
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Moving resource management out of the operating system kernel facilitates a high degree of customisation. The lowest layer of the Arena system provides an abstract interface to conventional processor hardware (Mayes, 1993; Quick, 1995). The idea is to encapsulate the hardware behind an interface with certain low-level concepts which are generally applicable to any processor. Localization of hardware-dependency has the effect of increasing modularity and thus portability. This encapsulation, termed the Arena hardware object (HWO) supports portable user-level customizable resource management (Mayes et al., 1994). The aim is to remove resource management policy from the HWO whilst maintaining its integrity. The present paper deals with the Arena approach to the provision of pure user-level threads. Native implementations on Sparc and i486 processors are briefly described and performance figures are given. The compromise between reducing policy and maintaining integrity in the HWO implementations is discussed.