README

Device File-based I/O Virtualization
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Overview
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In Unix-like operating systems, everything is abstracted as a file.  'Device
files' are the files that abstract I/O devices. We have built Paradice, a system
that paravirtualizes I/O devices at the device file boundary. The modules here,
released under the code name 'Device File-based I/O Virtualization (DFV)',
implement the core functionalities used in Paradice. You can find more details
on the design and performance of Paradice in our ASPLOS'14 paper:

Ardalan Amiri Sani, Kevin Boos, Shaopu Qin, and Lin Zhong, "I/O
Paravirtualization at the Device File Boundary," in Proc. ACM ASPLOS, March
2014.

link to PDF:

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/publications/amirisani2014asplos.pdf

Please refer to the project website for more information on the code, including
instructions for using the code, current limitations, and future work:

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ardalan/paradice.html

Author
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Ardalan Amiri Sani <arrdalan@gmail.com>