Improving Distributed OS Performance by Flexible Incremental Linking

Abstract Distributed Systems suffer from the enormous performance gap between local and remote operation. To bridge this gap a general purpose distributed operating system must provide a variety of techniques for a single purpose, such as both RPC and replication, for remote data access. Depending on the situation the OS has to select the most suitable technique dynamically. But the indirections needed for dynamic switching between different techniques must be as efficient as possible to avoid constant overhead. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the highly flexible linker FLink that allows the OS to switch between different techniques at runtime without constant overhead.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Markus Pizka
• Keywords: Constant Overhead, Different Techniques, Enormous Performance Gap, PDPTA 2003, PDPTA 2007