An infrastructure for application-specific customization

Authors:
Arindam Banerji;David L. Cohn
Affiliations:
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana;University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Venue:
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
Year:
1994

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Abstract

As application requirements diverge, it is becoming increasingly clear that the one size fits all operating system design strategy is obsolete. Customizable system services would allow application-specific optimizations, and various customization strategies have been proposed. These vary widely and, depending on the required level of application-developer involvement, can be categorized as parametric variation, interposition or synthesis methods. We present a common architectural infrastructure for operating system components which allows customization by any of these approaches. Our ongoing implementation based on this framework is beginning to show that support for application-specific customization can be incorporated into existing commercial operating systems.