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cs.OS2024
Characterizing Physical Memory Fragmentation
Mark Mansi, Michael M. Swift
External fragmentation of physical memory occurs when adjacent differently sized regions of allocated physical memory are freed at different times, causing free memory to be physic…
cs.OS2023
Policy/mechanism separation in the Warehouse-Scale OS
Mark Mansi, Michael M. Swift
"As many of us know from bitter experience, the policies provided in extant operating systems, which are claimed to work well and behave fairly 'on the average', often fail to do s…