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Yuqun Chen, Stefanos N. Damianakis, Sanjeev Kumar,
Xiang Yu, and Kai Li
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ-08544
{yuqun, snd, skumar, xyu, li}@cs.princeton.edu
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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This paper was originally published in the
Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium,
July 12-15, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA
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