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Achieved IPC performance (still the foundation for extensibility)

Authors

Jochen Liedtke, Kevin Elphinstone, Sebastian Sch\"onberg, Herrman H\"artig, Gernot Heiser, Nayeem Islam and Trent Jaeger

IBM Watson Research Center\ The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052
Australia

Abstract

Extensibility can be based on cross-address-space communication or on grafting application-specific modules into the operating system. For comparing both approaches, we need to explore the best achievable performance in both models. This paper reports the achieved performance of cross-address-space communication for the L4 \mu-kernel on Intel Pentium, Mips R4600 and DEC Alpha. The direct costs range from 45 cycles (alpha) to 121 cycles (Pentium). Since only 2.3% of the L1 cache are required (Pentium), the average indirect costs are not to be expected much higher.

BibTeX Entry

  @inproceedings{Liedtke_ESHHIJ_97,
    address          = {Cape Cod, MA, USA},
    author           = {Jochen Liedtke and Kevin Elphinstone and Sebastian Sch{\"o}nberg and Herrman H{\"a}rtig and Gernot
                        Heiser and Nayeem Islam and Trent Jaeger},
    booktitle        = {Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS)},
    month            = may,
    pages            = {28--31},
    paperurl         = {https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Liedtke_ESHHIJ_97.pdf},
    title            = {Achieved {IPC} Performance (Still the Foundation for Extensibility)},
    year             = {1997}
  }

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