SOLVING THE LOCK HOLDER PREEMPTION PROBLEM IN A MULTICORE PROCESSOR-BASED VIRTUALIZATION LAYER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Hitoshi Mitake, Yuki Kinebuchi, Tsung-Han Lin, Tatsuo Nakajima

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we explain the reason why the Lock Holder Preemption(LHP) problem is serious when using a multi-core processor based virtualization layer. Then, we introduce two new techniques for avoiding the LHP problem. The existing techniques and new proposed techniques have been implemented on our virtualization layer called SPUMONE, and we measured the results showing that the proposed new techniques reduce the semantic gap to use a virtualization layer on a multi-core processor in embedded systems.

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Mitake H., Kinebuchi Y., Lin T. and Nakajima T. (2012). SOLVING THE LOCK HOLDER PREEMPTION PROBLEM IN A MULTICORE PROCESSOR-BASED VIRTUALIZATION LAYER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 369-377. DOI: 10.5220/0003800603690377


in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs12,
author={Hitoshi Mitake and Yuki Kinebuchi and Tsung-Han Lin and Tatsuo Nakajima},
title={SOLVING THE LOCK HOLDER PREEMPTION PROBLEM IN A MULTICORE PROCESSOR-BASED VIRTUALIZATION LAYER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={369-377},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003800603690377},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - SOLVING THE LOCK HOLDER PREEMPTION PROBLEM IN A MULTICORE PROCESSOR-BASED VIRTUALIZATION LAYER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Mitake H.
AU - Kinebuchi Y.
AU - Lin T.
AU - Nakajima T.
PY - 2012
SP - 369
EP - 377
DO - 10.5220/0003800603690377