An Alternative Implementation for Accelerating Some Functions of Operating System

János Végh, Ádám Kicsák, Zsolt Bagoly, Péter Molnár

2014

Abstract

Processes running under an operating system are independent and autonomous entities. However, they need to share resources, communicate, use OS services, etc. The operating system’s services can be reached through system calls, which contribute – sometimes excessive – overhead activity. In some cases the payload activity, used in the system call, is much shorter than that needed for implementing the Exceptional Control Flow, implementing the system call frame. In certain cases, the OS service in question can be implemented in an alternative way, practically without overhead. The paper presents such a case, using an easy to understand simple example, an alternative implementation of a simple binary semaphore. The semaphore has been implemented and tested in a prototyping environment, using an operating system running on a soft processor equipped with custom instruction. For implementing the semaphores, a reconfigurable device was used.

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in Harvard Style

Végh J., Kicsák Á., Bagoly Z. and Molnár P. (2014). An Alternative Implementation for Accelerating Some Functions of Operating System . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 494-499. DOI: 10.5220/0005104704940499


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={János Végh and Ádám Kicsák and Zsolt Bagoly and Péter Molnár},
title={An Alternative Implementation for Accelerating Some Functions of Operating System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={494-499},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005104704940499},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - An Alternative Implementation for Accelerating Some Functions of Operating System
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Végh J.
AU - Kicsák Á.
AU - Bagoly Z.
AU - Molnár P.
PY - 2014
SP - 494
EP - 499
DO - 10.5220/0005104704940499