Title
Lightweight recoverable virtual memory
Abstract
Recoverable virtual memoryrefers to regions of a virtual address space on which transactional guarantees are offered. This article describes RVM, an efficient, portable, and easily used implementation of recoverable virtual memory for Unix environments. A unique characteristic of RVM is that it allows independent control over the transactional properties of atomicity, permanence, and serializability. This leads to considerable flexibility in the use of RVM, potentially enlarging the range of applications that can benefit from transactions. It also simplifies the layering of functionality such as nesting and distribution. The article shows that RVM performs well over its intended range of usage even though it does not benefit from specialized operating system support. It also demonstrates the importance of intra- and inter-transaction optimizations.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1145/174613.174615
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating systems principles
Keywords
Field
DocType
inter-transaction optimizations,unix environment,recoverable virtual memoryrefers,transactional property,recoverable virtual memory,transactional guarantee,lightweight recoverable virtual memory,intended range,intertransaction optimizations,independent control,considerable flexibility,virtual address space,specialized operating system support,addressing,optimization,coda,control,logical disk,semantics,design,unix,operating system,performance,throughput,truncation,persistence,information retrieval,recovery,logging,measurement,fault tolerance,virtual memory,paging
Atomicity,Serializability,Computer science,Virtual memory,Virtual address space,Unix,Logical disk,Real-time computing,Paging,Distributed computing,Scalability,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
0734-2071
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
86
13.97
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Satyanarayanan187741707.65
Henry H. Mashburn28614.31
Puneet Kumar3775225.09
David C. Steere4758189.35
James J. Kistler5673192.53