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Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features (shivambharuka.wordpress.com)
7 points by shivam2501 3156 days ago
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http://dune.scs.stanford.edu/ <-- software is there for us to play with, very cool! =]
The lead author, Adam Belay, worked on an OS, IX, as well which used Dune and implemented the network stack in the userspace. The paper is reviewed here: https://shivambharuka.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/ix-a-protecte....
A very cool OS-deign paradigm which supports I/O capabilities in containers today. It empowers containers to use all I/O capabilities of the underlying server hardware without the overhead of monolithic OS kernel.