DistOS 2015W Session 4
Amoeba Operating System
Capablities:
- Pointer to the object
- Capability assigning right to perform to some operation to the object ticket
- Communicate wide area network
- a kind of ticket or key that allows the holder of the capa- bility to perform some (not neces- sarily all)
- Each user process owns some collection of capabilities, which together define the set of objects it may access and the types of operations that my ne performed on each
- After the server has performed the operation, it sends back a reply message that unblocks the client
- Sending messages, blocking and accepting forms the remote procedure call that can be encapsulate using to make entire remote operation look like local procedure
- Second field: used by the sever to identify which of its objects is being addressed server port and object number identify object which operation to performed
- Generates 48-bit random number
- The third field is the right field which contains a bit map telling which operation the holder of the capability may performed
Thread Management:
- Same process have multiple thread and each process has its own registered counter and stack
- Behave like process
- It can synchronized using mutex semaphore
- File: Multiple thread,
- Blocked when there's multiple threads
- Buttlet thread the mutex
- The careful reader may have noticed that user process can pull 813kbytes/sec
The V Distributed System
- First tent in V design: High Performance communication is the most critical facility for distributed systems.
- Second; The protocols, not the software, define the system.
- Third; a relatively small operating system kernel can implement the basic protocols and services providing a simple network-transparent process, address space & communication model.
Ideas that significantly affected the design
- Shared Memory.
- Dealing with group of entities same as they deal w/individual entities.
- Efficient file caching mechanism using the virtual memory caching mechanism.
Design Decisions
- Designed for a cluster of workstations with high speed network access ( only really supports LAN ).
- Abstract the physical architecture of the participating workstations, by defining common protocols providing well-defined interfaces.