Direct User Calls from the Kernel: Design and Implementation

Traditional, general-purpose operating systems strictly separate user processes from the kernel. Processes can only communicate with the kernel through system calls. As a means to ensure system security, system calls inevitably involve performance overhead. Direct User Callback from the Kernel, or D...

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Main Author: Wang, Weihan
Language:en
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3299