Quote: several techniques for delaying or dropping excessive interrupt requests; bounds the work, granularity, and rate of the interrupt context; e.g., the first moon landing nearly aborted due to interrupt overload

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This paper describes three new techniques, two software-based … overload a processor. Our interrupt schedulers bound both … strong progress guarantees to thread-level processing. We show … By allowing developers to avoid making assumptions about … reasoning leading to a validated system. These techniques … provide a last-ditch safety guarantee in the presence … [p. 51] The first moon landing was nearly aborted … guidance computer resets [ref] … [apparently] caused by spurious signals coming from a …   Google-1   Google-2

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