arbarb

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   by arbarb 6y ago

   Who exactly would make that claim? Will Serverless End the Dominance of Linux in the Cloud? https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3102980.3103008
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   by arbarb 6y ago

   UKL is multi threaded, not multi process because there is no fork. Plus it's a Unikernel i.e., just one process. You don't need any scheduling code, Linux does it like it does normally for kernel and user threads.
3. 3.▲
   by arbarb 6y ago

   Slight clarification. Yes, UKL has normal kthreads, but all the application code runs using pthreads. And their implementation is unchanged, except the fact that they do function calls instead of syscall.
4. 4.▲
   by arbarb 7y ago

   If you read that article, they tested two unikernels and the key point was that unikernels don't implement security mechanisms present in a normal OS. This Linux Unikernel, otoh, does not delete any of that security functionality. The