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Supporting time-sensitive applications on general-purpose operating systems (2002)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 5rd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’02 |
| Citations: | 11 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Goel02supportingtime-sensitive,
author = {Ashvin Goel and Luca Abeni and Jim Snow and Charles Krasic and Jonathan Walpole},
title = {Supporting time-sensitive applications on general-purpose operating systems},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 5rd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’02},
year = {2002},
pages = {165--180}
}
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Abstract
General-purpose operating systems are increasingly being used for serving time-sensitive applications. Supporting these applications requires low-latency response from the kernel and from other system-level services. This paper explores various operating systems techniques needed to support time-sensitive applications and describes the design of a time-sensitive, general-purpose Linux system. We show that a high-precision timing facility together with a well-designed preemptible kernel can be the basis for a low-latency response system and such a system can have low overhead. We evaluate the behavior of realistic time-sensitive user- and kernel-level applications on our system and show that, in practice, it is possible to properly support time-sensitive applications in a general-purpose operating system without compromising the performance of throughput-oriented applications. 1
Keyphrases
time-sensitive application general-purpose operating system kernel-level application low-latency response system general-purpose linux system low-latency response well-designed preemptible kernel realistic time-sensitive user throughput-oriented application system-level service low overhead system technique support time-sensitive application high-precision timing facility
