Firefly: A Multiprocessor Workstation
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Lightweight remote procedure call
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Hector: A Hierarchically Structured Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
Computer - Special issue on experimental research in computer architecture
Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Improving IPC by kernel design
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The increasing irrelevance of IPC Performance for Micro-kernel-Based Operating Systems
Proceedings of the Workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures
Designing a Scalable Operating System for Shared Memory Multiprocessors
Proceedings of the Workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures
An Architectural Overview of QNX
Proceedings of the Workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures
An experiment using registers for fast message-based interprocess communication
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The spring nucleus: a microkernel for objects
Usenix-stc'93 Proceedings of the USENIX Summer 1993 Technical Conference on Summer technical conference - Volume 1
(De-) Clustering Objects for Multiprocessor System Software
IWOOOS '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems
A case for NUMA-aware contention management on multicore systems
USENIXATC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
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We assert that in order to perform well, a shared-memory multiprocessor inter-process communication (IPC) facility must avoid a) accessing any shared data, and b) acquiring any locks. In addition, such a multiprocessor IPC facility must preserve the locality and concurrency of the applications themselves so that the high performance of the IPC facility can be fully exploited. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a new shared-memory multiprocessor IPC facility that in the common case internally requires no accesses to shared data and no locking. In addition, the model of IPC we support and our implementation ensure that local resources are made available to the server to allow it to exploit any locality and concurrency available in the service. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first IPC subsystem with these attributes. The performance data we present demonstrates that the end-to- end performance of our multiprocessor IPC facility is competitive with the fastest uniprocessor IPC times.