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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - Windows NT Symposium 99
Porting a User-Level Communication Architecture to NT: Experiences and Performance
Yuqun Chen, Stefanos N. Damianakis, Sanjeev Kumar, Xiang Yu, and Kai Li, Princeton University
Abstract
This paper describes our experiences in porting the VMMC user-level
communication architecture from Linux to Windows NT. The original
Linux implementation required no operating system changes and was done
entirely using device drivers and user-level libraries. Porting the
Linux implementation to NT was fairly straightforward and required no
kernel modifications. Our measurements show that the performance of
both platforms is fairly similar for the common data transfer
operations because they bypass the OS. But Linux performs better than
NT on operations that require OS support.
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