COMP 3000 Essay 2 2010 Question 3

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3.FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls


Paper

The Title of the paper we will be analyzing is named "FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls". The authors of this paper consist of Livio Stores and Michael Stumm, both of which are from the University of Toronto. The paper can be viewed here, [1] for further details on specifics of the essay.

Background Concepts:

System Calls:

Processor Exceptions:

Synchronous Execution Model(System call Interface):

System Call Pollution:

Mode Switches:

System Call Batching:

Research Problem:

Contribution:

Critique References: