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Table 3 The mean latency (in μs or microseconds) of some important multi-process interfaces and syscalls evaluating with lmbench

From: Iso-UniK: lightweight multi-process unikernel through memory protection keys

Systems

Multi-Process

Syscall

 

Fork&Exit

Pipe

Ctx

Null

Open&Close

Linux Kernel

217.8

10.46

7.794

0.1974

1.717*

OSv

-

3.48

-

0.0013

4.560

Iso-UniK-no-gate

65.8

4.32

4.256

0.0014

5.107

Iso-UniK

103.1

9.64

7.746

0.0425

5.181

  1. “Iso-UniK-no-gate” means disable the two isolation methods. “ctx” means context switch *: The “Open&close” is tested under Linux 4.4.0 with ZFS