The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
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On the elusive benefits of protocol offload
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Direct Cache Access for High Bandwidth Network I/O
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Implementing declarative overlays
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Study on Enhanced Strategies for TCP/IP Offload Engines
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TCP offload through connection handoff
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High performance and scalable I/O virtualization via self-virtualized devices
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Melange: creating a "functional" internet
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Bridging the gap between software and hardware techniques for I/O virtualization
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Minimizing the Hidden Cost of RDMA
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RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers
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The multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems
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Helios: heterogeneous multiprocessing with satellite kernels
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Mind the gap: reconnecting architecture and OS research
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PTask: operating system abstractions to manage GPUs as compute devices
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SafeCard: a gigabit IPS on the network card
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Dune: safe user-level access to privileged CPU features
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On limitations of network acceleration
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Operating systems fail both to efficiently exploit, and to effeectively manage, the considerable hardware resources of modern network interface controllers. We survey the kinds of hardware facilities available and their applicability, and then investigate (and critique) the reasons why OS designers eschew core support for such features. We then describe Dragonet, a new network stack design based on explicit descriptions of NIC capabilities, aimed at making the best use of today's and tomorrow's networking hardware. Dragonet represents both the physical capabilities of the network hardware and the current protocol state of the machine as dataflow graphs. We then embed the former into the latter, instantiating the remainder in software.