Title :
The persistent relevance of IPC performance: new techniques for reducing the IPC penalty
Author :
Hsieh, Wilson C. ; Kaashoek, M. Frans ; Weihl, William E.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Although there have been substantial improvements in interprocess communication (IPC) performance (in particular round-trip IPC time) in recent years, further reduction of the IPC penalty is still important for parallel applications and microkernel-based operating systems. We describe a number of new software and hardware techniques that we are investigating for reducing various components of the IPC penalty
Keywords :
computer communications software; network operating systems; IPC penalty; interprocess communication; microkernel-based operating systems; persistent relevance; Application software; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Costs; File servers; Kernel; Laboratories; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Protection;
Conference_Titel :
Workstation Operating Systems, 1993. Proceedings., Fourth Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4000-6
DOI :
10.1109/WWOS.1993.348151
