Distributed process groups in the V kernel
DR Cheriton, W Zwaenepoel - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems …, 1985 - dl.acm.org
DR Cheriton, W Zwaenepoel
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 1985•dl.acm.orgThe V kernel supports an abstraction of processes, with operations for interprocess
communication, process management, and memory management. This abstraction is used
as a software base for constructing distributed systems. As a distributed kernel, the V kernel
makes intermachine boundaries largely transparent. In this environment of many
cooperating processes on different machines, there are many logical groups of processes.
Examples include the group of tile servers, a group of processes executing a particular job …
communication, process management, and memory management. This abstraction is used
as a software base for constructing distributed systems. As a distributed kernel, the V kernel
makes intermachine boundaries largely transparent. In this environment of many
cooperating processes on different machines, there are many logical groups of processes.
Examples include the group of tile servers, a group of processes executing a particular job …
The V kernel supports an abstraction of processes, with operations for interprocess communication, process management, and memory management. This abstraction is used as a software base for constructing distributed systems. As a distributed kernel, the V kernel makes intermachine boundaries largely transparent.
In this environment of many cooperating processes on different machines, there are many logical groups of processes. Examples include the group of tile servers, a group of processes executing a particular job, and a group of processes executing a distributed parallel computation.
In this paper we describe the extension of the V kernel to support process groups. Operations on groups include group interprocess communication, which provides an application-level abstraction of network multicast. Aspects of the implementation and performance, and initial experience with applications are discussed.