"D for a @safer Linux Kernel" poster presentation at APLAS

Arun Chandrasekaran aruncxy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 17:30:20 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 11:21:41 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 07:13:05 UTC, Arun 
> Chandrasekaran wrote:
>> [...]
>
> It seems that they are creating a framework for developing 
> kernel modules in rust that can be integrated with the linux 
> kernel. They haven't tested the performance of a particular 
> rust driver compared to a C one. This is a bit different from 
> what we did: we directly ported a C driver to D and integrated 
> it with the kernel, with negligible performance loss. The 4% 
> performance loss that was encountered in some situations is due 
> to the fact that we have D wrappers over C function calls and 
> some macros are translated as functions that are called at 
> runtime - they are not inlined -; one thing we still need to do 
> is to test with the recent link time optimizations (LTO) and 
> profile guided optimizations (PGO) flags in clang; we are 
> confident that this will enhance the performance of the ported 
> driver).

Good to know. May be you could publish the code on GitHub/GitLab 
and that could attract interest among people who care about 
performance to take a look. It's tricky to measure performance at 
this scale.


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