Summary: Information and Control in Gray­Box Systems
Andrea C. Arpaci­Dusseau
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin--Madison
dusseau@cs.wisc.edu
Remzi H. Arpaci­Dusseau
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin--Madison
remzi@cs.wisc.edu
ABSTRACT
In modern systems, developers are often unable to modify
the underlying operating system. To build services in such
an environment, we advocate the use of gray­box techniques.
When treating the operating system as a gray­box, one recog­
nizes that not changing the OS restricts, but does not com­
pletely obviate, both the information one can acquire about
the internal state of the OS and the control one can impose
on the OS. In this paper, we develop and investigate three
gray­box Information and Control Layers (ICLs) for deter­
mining the contents of the file­cache, controlling the layout of

Source: Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi - Department of Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences