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The IX Operating System
2016
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet rates for small messages and μs-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in a user-level networking stack. We present IX, a dataplane operating system that provides high I/O performance and high resource efficiency while maintaining the protection and isolation benefits of existing kernels. IX uses hardware virtualization to separate management and scheduling functions of the kernel
doi:10.1145/2997641
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