A distributed shared memory facility for FreeBSD

Pedro Souto; Eugene W. Stark

A distributed shared memory facility for FreeBSD

Pedro Souto
, Eugene W. Stark

Computer Science

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed shared memory facility we have implemented for the FreeBSD operating system (a descendant of 4.4BSD that runs on the PC architecture). Interesting aspects of the design are: (1) the consistency protocol uses unreliable datagram communication, but is robust with respect to message loss, and in the normal case requires only two datagrams to handle a read fault; (2) the facility provides a simple programming interface that does not require any socket or network programming to use; (3) the facility extends the FreeBSD VM system in a very non-intrusive way.

Original language	English
State	Published - 1997
Event	1997 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 1997 - Anaheim, United States Duration: Jan 6 1997 → Jan 10 1997

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Conference	1997 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 1997
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anaheim
Period	01/6/97 → 01/10/97

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