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Abstract: Multiple lightweight processes or threads have multiple stacks, and a thread context switch moves execution from one stack to another. On the SPARC 1 architecture, parts of a thread's stack can be cached in register windows while the thread is running. The cached data must be flushed to memory when the thread is suspended. Doing the flushing both efficiently and correctly can be tricky. This document discusses the implementation of a non-preemptive user-space threads package under SunOS 2 ... (Update)
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.... on a Sequent Symmetry [Seq88] a 20MHz KSR1 processor [KSR91] two SPARC based [SPA92] Suns with kernel support for register windows [Kep91]; a DECstation 5000 200 using a MIPS R3000 processor [Kan87] and a VAX based [DEC81] VAXstation 3500. QuickThreads also runs on a...
...Techniques Several software techniques have been proposed to run multithreaded programs more efficiently on existing hardware. Keppel [49] and Hidaka [36] both proposed different ways of running multiple concurrent threads in the register windows of a Sparc [14] processor....
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David Keppel. Register windows and user-space threads on the Sparc. Technical Report 91-08-01, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 1991. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/keppel91register.html More
@techreport{ keppel91register,
author = "D. Keppel",
title = "Register Windows and User-Space Threads on the {SPARC}",
number = "TR-91-08-01",
year = "1991",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/keppel91register.html" }
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