Making paths explicit in the scout operating system

David Mosberger; Larry L. Peterson

doi:10.1145/238721.238771

Making paths explicit in the scout operating system

David Mosberger, Larry L. Peterson

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This paper makes a case for paths as an explicit abstraction in operating system design. Paths provide a unifying infrastructure for several OS mechanisms that have been introduced in the last several years, including fbufs, integrated layer processing, packet classifiers, code specialization, and migrating threads. This paper articulates the potential advantages of a path-based OS structure, describes the specific path architecture implemented in the Scout OS, and demonstrates the advantages in a particular application domain—receiving, decoding, and displaying MPEG-compressed video.

Original language	English (US)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/238721.238771
State	Published - 1996
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 1996 - Seattle, United States Duration: Oct 28 1996 → Oct 31 1996

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Conference	2nd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 1996
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	10/28/96 → 10/31/96

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems

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