Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management 论文总结

Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management 论文总结

Paper Title

Dawson R. Engler, M. Frans Kaashoek, and James O’Toole Jr., “Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management”, Proc. of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1996.

Summary

The paper proposes and. Implements a new OS architecture, exokernel. In Introduction, the paper discusses the weakness of traditional OS architectures. Traditional OSs provide high-level abstraction but limit the performance, flexibility and functionality of applications. In contrast, an exokernel aims to provide application-level management of physical resources. It separates protection from management. It exports hardware resources r