Porting multithreading libraries to an exokernel system

Authors:
Ernest Artiaga;Albert Serra;Marisa Gil
Affiliations:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/ Jordi Girona 3, Mòdul D6, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/ Jordi Girona 3, Mòdul D6, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/ Jordi Girona 3, Mòdul D6, 08071 Barcelona, Spain
Venue:
EW 9 Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system
Year:
2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an extension to allow multithreaded applications to run on an Intel-based exokernel system. For this purpose, we have ported a user-level threads package to such environment. Our goal is to evaluate the suitability of running multithreaded parallel applications on top of a multiprocessor system managed by an exokernel. We present the design of a prototype library, the lessons learned during its implementation and our proposals for this kind of systems.