Improving Distributed OS Performance by Flexible Incremental Linking.
Markus Pizka · 2003
Distributed Systems su#er from the enormous performance gap between local and remote operation. To bridge this gap a general purpose distributed operating system must provide a variety of techniques for a single purpose, such as both RPC and replication, for remote data access. Depending on the situation the OS has to select the most suitable technique dynamically. But the indirections needed for dynamic switching between di#erent techniques must be as e#cient as possible to avoid constant overhead. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the highly flexible linker FLink that allows the OS to switch between di#erent techniques at runtime without constant overhead.