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A Portable Kernel Abstraction for Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management

Willy Zwaenepoel

Modern operating systems create ephemeral virtual-to-physical mappings for a variety of purposes, ranging from the implementation of interprocess communication to the implementation of process tracing and debugging. With succeeding generations of processor ...

2005

IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system

Willy Zwaenepoel

This article presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of IO -Lite, a unified I/O buffering and caching system for general-purpose operating systems. IO-Lite unifies all buffering and caching in the system, to the extent permitted by the hardware ...

2000

IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System

Willy Zwaenepoel

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of IO-Lite, a unified I/O buffering and caching system for general-purpose operating systems. IO-Lite unifies all buffering and caching in the system, to the extent permitted by the hardware. In ...

1999

Distributed process groups in the V Kernel

Willy Zwaenepoel

The V kernel supports an abstraction of processes, with operations for interprocess communication, process management, and memory management. This abstraction is used as a software base for constructing distributed systems. As a distributed kernel, the V k ...

1985

Implementation and Performance of Pipes in the V-System

Willy Zwaenepoel

The author compares the measured performance of pipes implemented by a pipe server process on top of the V message passing transport protocol versus the calculated performance of pipes implemented by an operating system kernel and supported by a dedicated ...

1985

Implementation and Performance of Pipes in the V-System

Willy Zwaenepoel

1985

One-to-many Interprocess Communication in the V-System

Willy Zwaenepoel

1984

The Distributed V Kernel and its Performance for Diskless Workstations

Willy Zwaenepoel

The distributed V kernel is a message-oriented kernel that provides uniform local and network interprocess communication. It is primarily being used in an environment of diskless workstations connected by a high-speed local network to a set of file servers ...

1983