Performance analysis and optimization of user space versus kernel space network application

• Main Authors: K., Minghao, Y.C., Khong, K.K., Ettikan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/368/1/paper.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-50449106004&partnerID=40&md5=86eeabf32a3672979950dfe5a7e18c10; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/368/

Operating systems such as Linux cater to numerous network applications ranging from daemons that provide services namely HTTPd and SSHd to client programs that access these services. Traditionally, these programs are written in user space and use system calls to switch to the kernel so that operatio...