The context-switch overhead inflicted by hardware interrupts (and the enigma of do-nothing loops).

Dan Tsafrir The context-switch overhead inflicted by hardware interrupts (and the enigma of do-nothing loops). 4 2007 Experimental Computer Science http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1281700.1281704 conf/expcs/2007 db/conf/expcs/expcs2007.html#Tsafrir07