Consider a queueing system with two or more servers, each with its own queue with infinite capacity. Customers arrive according to some stochastic process (e.g., a Poisson process) and immediately ...

One of the useful features in new networking hardware is extra transmit queues, to give a latency advantage to outgoing audio and video packets. A new kernel feature lets device driver writers use ...

In the prior two articles in this series (What Is SMP Without Shared Memory? and The Essentials Of Multiprocessor Programming), we have gone through the theory behind programming multi-threaded ...