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We're talking about pretty significant improvements in network I/O performance (among other things) with a unikernel, correct ? My understanding is that there
by TimJYoung 8y ago
We're talking about pretty significant improvements in network I/O performance (among other things) with a unikernel, correct ? My understanding is that there have been several projects that have revolved around putting Linux network drivers into userspace so as to improve the throughput and avoid the kernel mode switch.
- dweekly 8y agoHere are some presentations from Google touching on reducing kernel overhead for high performance networking: https://netdevconf.org/1.2/slides/oct6/03_jerry_chu_usTCP_LKL.pdf https://netdevconf.org/1.2/slides/oct6/03_jerry_chu_usTCP_LK... https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/nsdi16_slides_eisenbud.pdf https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
- TimJYoung 8y agoBeautiful, thanks for the links.