MxKernel: A Bare-Metal Runtime System for Database Operat
challenge for application and system software developers. We argue that the major hindrance for applications and system software alike lies in the design of today’s system software architecture. The thread abstraction [...] as the memory topology or accelerators from applications and application behavior from the system software, forcing the latter to base resource management on assumptions while preventing the former from [...] from leveraging the potential of modern hardware. We present the MxKernel as a novel system software architecture with the requirements of modern data-intensive applications in mind. Instead of threads, the …
