microsoft / microsoft/demikernel
[pdpix] Support Coexistence of Different LibOS Types
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Description
Context
Currently, Demikernel does not support multiple LibOSes, each of which of a different type, to co-exist.
This may be limiting when an application interacts with multiple kernel-bypass technologies at the same time.
Proposed Solution
In order to enable multiple LibOSes to co-exist, we shall work on the following steps:
- Enable compilation of LibOSes to be composed (d61ae7bdf605d1c032c30e809fcafcf04ffe5798)
- Enable dynamic selection of which LibOSes flavor should be instantiated (d61ae7bdf605d1c032c30e809fcafcf04ffe5798)
- Enable instantiation of multiple LibOSes.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the completed commit d61ae7bdf605d1c032c30e809fcafcf04ffe5798 and the current LibOS composition and dynamic-selection implementation. Identify the architecture needed to instantiate multiple LibOSes simultaneously; done means multiple LibOS instances of different types can coexist when an application uses multiple kernel-bypass technologies.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- networking, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100