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Fbufs: A High-Bandwidth Cross-Domain Transfer Facility (1993)
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| Venue: | in Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating Systems Principles |
| Citations: | 332 - 15 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Druschel93fbufs:a,
author = {Peter Druschel and Larry L. Peterson},
title = {Fbufs: A High-Bandwidth Cross-Domain Transfer Facility},
booktitle = {in Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
year = {1993},
pages = {189--202}
}
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Abstract
We have designed and implemented a new operating system facility for I/O buffer management and data transfer across protection domain boundaries on shared memory machines. This facility, called fast buffers (fbufs), combines virtual page remapping with shared virtual memory, and exploits locality in I/O traffic to achieve high throughput withoutcompromising protection, security, or modularity. Its goal is to help deliver the high bandwidth afforded by emerging high-speed networks to user-level processes, both in monolithic and microkernel-based operating systems. This paper outlines the requirements for a cross-domain transfer facility, describes the design of the fbuf mechanism that meets these requirements, and experimentally quantifies the impact of fbufs on network performance. 1 Introduction Optimizing operations that cross protection domain boundaries has received a great deal of attention recently [2, 3]. This is because an efficient cross-domain invocation facility enables a ...
Keyphrases
high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility protection domain boundary high-speed network cross-domain transfer facility network performance virtual memory shared memory machine microkernel-based operating system high throughput efficient cross-domain invocation facility combine virtual page fbuf mechanism great deal data transfer user-level process fast buffer new operating system facility high bandwidth
