Quote: MP-RCS restarts critical sections at beginning of a time quantum; stale sections use upcalls to initiate a restart

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If a thread is interrupted in a critical … thread is eventually rescheduled it will restart the … [p. 271] Since the thread is at the beginning of a full … Under MP-RCS, if a thread executing in a … thread run on that processor, then the interrupted … To avoid interference, the kernel driver posts an … [which] aborts the interrupted operation and restarts the … The upcall is deferred - the next time … interrupted instruction. … [p. 272] In our current implementation restartable critical sections … be destroyed until after the commit point.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: MP-RCS critical sections written in assembler without destroying input arguments

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