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The Case for Extensible Operating Systems (1995)
| Venue: | Harvard University Center for |
| Citations: | 1 - 0 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Seltzer95thecase,
author = {Margo Seltzer and Christopher Small and Keith Smith},
title = {The Case for Extensible Operating Systems},
institution = {Harvard University Center for},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
Many of the performance improvements cited in recent operating systems research describe specific enhancements to normal operating system functionality that improve performance in a set of designated test cases. Global changes of this sort can improve performance for one application, at the cost of decreasing performance for others. We argue that this flurry of global kernel tweaking is an indication that our current operating system model is inappropriate. Existing interfaces do not provide the flexibility to tune the kernel on a per-application basis, to suit the variety of applications that we now see. We have failed in the past to be omniscient about future operating system requirements; there is no reason to believe that we will fare any better designing a new, fixed kernel interface today. Instead, the only general-purpose solution is to build an operating system interface that is easily extended. We present a kernel framework designed to support the application-specific customiz...
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application-specific customiz normal operating system functionality current operating system model designated test case operating system interface future operating system requirement per-application basis global change global kernel tweaking system research describe specific enhancement interface today performance improvement kernel framework general-purpose solution
