Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS

@inproceedings{UKL_techrep,
  title     = {{Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS}},
  author    = {Raza, Ali and Unger, Thomas and Boyd, Matthew and Munson, Eric and Sohal, Parul and Drepper, Ulrich and Jones, Richard and de Oliveira, Daniel Bristot and Woodman, Larry and Mancuso, Renato and Appavoo, Jonathan and Krieger, Orran},
  year      = 2022,
  publisher = {arXiv},
  doi       = {10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789}
}

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Raza, Ali
AU  - Unger, Thomas
AU  - Boyd, Matthew
AU  - Munson, Eric
AU  - Sohal, Parul
AU  - Drepper, Ulrich
AU  - Jones, Richard
AU  - de Oliveira, Daniel Bristot
AU  - Woodman, Larry
AU  - Mancuso, Renato
AU  - Appavoo, Jonathan
AU  - Krieger, Orran
TI  - Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS
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PY  - 2022
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789
UR  - https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789
AB  - This paper presents Unikernel Linux (UKL), a path toward integrating unikernel optimization techniques in Linux, a general purpose operating system. UKL adds a configuration option to Linux allowing for a single, optimized process to link with the kernel directly, and run at supervisor privilege. This UKL process does not require application source code modification, only a re-link with our, slightly modified, Linux kernel and glibc. Unmodified applications show modest performance gains out of the box, and developers can further optimize applications for more significant gains (e.g. 26% throughput improvement for Redis). UKL retains support for co-running multiple user level processes capable of communicating with the UKL process using standard IPC. UKL preserves Linux’s battle-tested codebase, community, and ecosystem of tools, applications, and hardware support. UKL runs both on bare-metal and virtual servers and supports multi-core execution. The changes to the Linux kernel are modest (1250 LOC).
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%A Unger, Thomas
%A Boyd, Matthew
%A Munson, Eric
%A Sohal, Parul
%A Drepper, Ulrich
%A Jones, Richard
%A de Oliveira, Daniel Bristot
%A Woodman, Larry
%A Mancuso, Renato
%A Appavoo, Jonathan
%A Krieger, Orran
%T Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS
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%D 2022
%I arXiv
%R 10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789
%U https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789
%X This paper presents Unikernel Linux (UKL), a path toward integrating unikernel optimization techniques in Linux, a general purpose operating system. UKL adds a configuration option to Linux allowing for a single, optimized process to link with the kernel directly, and run at supervisor privilege. This UKL process does not require application source code modification, only a re-link with our, slightly modified, Linux kernel and glibc. Unmodified applications show modest performance gains out of the box, and developers can further optimize applications for more significant gains (e.g. 26% throughput improvement for Redis). UKL retains support for co-running multiple user level processes capable of communicating with the UKL process using standard IPC. UKL preserves Linux’s battle-tested codebase, community, and ecosystem of tools, applications, and hardware support. UKL runs both on bare-metal and virtual servers and supports multi-core execution. The changes to the Linux kernel are modest (1250 LOC).

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A. Raza, T. Unger, M. Boyd, E. Munson, P. Sohal, U. Drepper, R. Jones, D. B. de Oliveira, L. Woodman, R. Mancuso, J. Appavoo, and O. Krieger, “Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS,” in , 2022, doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789.

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Raza, A., Unger, T., Boyd, M., Munson, E., Sohal, P., Drepper, U., Jones, R., de Oliveira, D. B., Woodman, L., Mancuso, R., Appavoo, J., & Krieger, O. (2022). Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS. In . arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2206.00789

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