The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction

Re:The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction by justicezyx on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:57AM (#19992886)

I am surprised and disappointed that the original paper and the blog post has zero reference to unikernel research, despite the fact that unikernel pretty much is the whole encompassing idea.

I am wondering whether or not this is a missing or a different understanding the concept.

Edit: Sorry I did not really get the difference between library OS and unikernels.

It's still a lack of reference considering their connections.

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Re:The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction by iyzhang on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:23PM (#19993114)

The Demikernel is not a unikernel. It is a library OS compiled as a series of shared libraries. It is not compiled together with the application and doesn’t take into account what features the application uses. It is designed to work with kernel-bypass hardware, like DPDK.

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