Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features (opens in new tab)

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vectorEQ8y ago· 1 in thread

http://dune.scs.stanford.edu/ <-- software is there for us to play with, very cool! =]

The lead author, Adam Belay, worked on an OS, IX, as well which used Dune and implemented the network stack in the userspace. The paper is reviewed here: https://shivambharuka.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/ix-a-protecte....

networkprogram28y ago

A very cool OS-deign paradigm which supports I/O capabilities in containers today. It empowers containers to use all I/O capabilities of the underlying server hardware without the overhead of monolithic OS kernel.

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