Symmetric multiprocessing in Solaris 2.0

Author

Kleiman, Steven ; Voll, Jim ; Eykholt, Joe ; Shivalingiah, Anil ; Williams, Dock ; Smith, Mark ; Barton, Steve ; Skinner, Glenn

Author_Institution

SunSoft Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

24-28 Feb. 1992

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

186

Abstract

SunOS 5.0 is the operating system component of the Solaris 2.0 environment. SunOS 5.0 is a dynamically loaded, fully preemptable, real-time, symmetric multiprocessing kernel that supports multiple threads of control within a single application process. The kernel not only runs equally on all processors within a tightly coupled shared memory multiprocessor, but also it has sufficient locking so that kernel processing can efficiently utilize multiple processors. The authors describe the overall architecture of the SunOS 5.0 kernel and the locking strategy of several major kernal subsystems to illustrate the concurrency available.<>

Keywords

concurrency control; multiprocessing systems; operating systems (computers); Solaris 2.0 environment; SunOS 5.0; concurrency; locking strategy; multiple threads of control; operating system; real-time kernel; symmetric multiprocessing kernel; tightly coupled shared memory multiprocessor; Concurrent computing; File systems; Kernel; Lighting control; Operating systems; Process control; Protocols; Switches; Synchronization; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2655-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186706

Filename

186706