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by jws 3745 days ago
The FlexSC paper from 2010.

They observe the cache damage from traditional system calls and propose batch queueing them and ideally using a different core to service them. This is not the traditional Unix programming model, so they create a threading package the transparently makes your traditional Unix synchronous system calls work. They benchmark Apache with all of this new apparatus and it performs very well.

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