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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ATC/OSDI'21 joint keynote: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:37:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210917003733.GB18465@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxCMFxxD+3ax27Mjp92sPjfNvBzPL1JNzp9Zj-VCsWFiw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:44:42AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> Now, though, we run an OS on the machine, put a VM on that, install a
> container on that, and run another VM (or JVM) inside the container, then
> maybe we're at the level where we can execute actual code. And that misses
> all the extra pieces that are distributed and layered and indirected and
> virtualized for management, logging, security, data warehousing, ...
> 
> It's a wonder any of it works at all.

I think a huge part of why it works is Pugs exporting the IOMMU to
user space.  If I understand that work correctly, it really doesn't
matter how many layers you have, if the layers use what he did, then
the layers don't matter for I/O and I/O is usually where things get slow.

Rob, that link you sent makes my head spin.  Which was probably your intent.

--lm

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-17  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 21:58 Dan Cross
2021-09-02  8:42 ` Tony Finch
2021-09-03  0:19   ` John Cowan
2021-09-03  3:24     ` Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-03 13:21       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-08 11:14         ` Tony Finch
2021-09-16 19:27         ` Dan Cross
2021-09-17  0:34           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-17  0:44             ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-17 17:07               ` Bakul Shah
2021-09-17  1:33             ` Dan Cross
2021-09-02 15:41 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-09-02 20:12   ` Marshall Conover
2021-09-03 15:56 ` Warner Losh
2021-09-03 17:10   ` Adam Thornton
2021-09-03 17:28     ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-03 17:42       ` John Floren
2021-09-03 19:02       ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-09-03 19:11       ` Clem Cole
2021-09-03 17:46     ` [TUHS] ATC/OSDI'21 joint keynote: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware [ really a comment on SoCs ] Jon Steinhart
2021-09-16 18:38 ` [TUHS] ATC/OSDI'21 joint keynote: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe) Dan Cross
2021-09-16 19:34   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-16 19:41     ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-16 23:14       ` Marshall Conover
2021-09-16 23:44         ` Rob Pike
2021-09-17  0:37           ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-09-17  1:38         ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17  3:54         ` John Cowan
2021-09-16 23:45       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17  0:06         ` Al Kossow
2021-09-17  4:06           ` John Cowan
2021-09-17  4:18             ` Al Kossow
2021-09-17  0:32         ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-16 23:54       ` David Arnold
2021-09-17  1:10         ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17  1:28           ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-17  1:40             ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17  2:04               ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-17  2:21                 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17  2:48           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-17 17:39         ` Bakul Shah
2021-09-17 17:51           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17 18:07             ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-17 21:03               ` Derek Fawcus
2021-09-17 22:11                 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-19  4:05                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-09-17 18:34             ` Bakul Shah
2021-09-17 18:56               ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17 19:16                 ` Bakul Shah
2021-09-17 19:35                   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-09-17 15:56     ` Bakul Shah
2021-09-17 18:24       ` ron minnich

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