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Fractured Processes: Adaptive, Fine-Grained Process Abstractions

Authors: 

Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Abstract: 

We introduce Fracture, a novel framework that transforms and modernizes the basic process abstraction. By “fracturing” an application into logical modules, Fracture enables powerful and novel run-time configurations that improve run-time testing, application availability, and general robustness, all in a generic and incremental manner. We demonstrate the utility of fracturing via in-depth case studies of a chat client, a web server, and two user-level file systems. Through these examples, we show that Fracture enables applications to transparently tolerate memory leaks, buffer overflows, and isolate subsystem crashes, with little change to source code; through intelligent fracturing, we can achieve low overhead as well, thus enabling deployment.

Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {187022,
author = {Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau},
title = {Fractured Processes: Adaptive, {Fine-Grained} Process Abstractions},
booktitle = {2014 Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems (TRIOS 14)},
year = {2014},
address = {Broomfield, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/trios14/technical-sessions/presentation/pillai},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct,
}
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