brainstorms

Friday March 04, 2005

solaris white album: essential papers

about a decade ago, a group now far, far away, put together the white album, a cherished collection of important technical papers authored by sun engineers until that time. with the release of solaris 10, i decided to revisit and revise that collection. here is a reasonably up-to-date version of the white album. it contains OS-related entries only, and many of the papers come from usenix. [which is of no surprise] almost all entries below are linked from citeseer to provide context and depth.[there are a few papers i could not locate in machine-readable form, but working on it. additions, corrections, suggestions welcomed.]

• Shared Libraries in SunOS
• Virtual Memory Architecture in SunOS
• SunOS Virtual Memory Implementation
• Realtime Scheduling in SunOS 5.0
• SunOS Multi-thread Architecture
• Beyond Multiprocessing: Multithreading the SunOS Kernel
• Implementing Lightweight Threads
• Symmetric Multiprocessing in Solaris 2.0
• Vnodes: An Architecture for Multiple File System Types in Sun UNIX
• Evolving the Vnode Interface
• Efficient User-Level File Cache Management on the Sun Vnode Interface
• Extent-like Performance from a UNIX File System
• Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem
• The Sun Network Filesystem: Design, Implementation and Experience
• Virtual Swap Space in SunOS
• Profiling and Tracing Dynamic Library Usage Via Interposition
• tmpfs: A Virtual Memory File System
• The Translucent File Service
• The Automounter
• The Automounter: Solaris 2.0 and Beyond
• The Autofs Automounter [i would appreciate a link to a postscript version of this paper, if it exists]
• Enhancements to the Autofs Automounter
• Removable Media in Solaris
• Zero-copy TCP In Solaris
• The Process File System and Process Model in UNIX System V [link not found]
• Evolution of the SunOS Programming Environment, Proceedings of the Spring 1988 EUUG Conference, Cascais, Portugal, 1988.

• Implementing Berkeley Sockets in System V Release 4
• Secure Networking in the Sun Environment, Usenix Conference Proceedings, Summer 1986
• Fast Consistency Checking for the Solaris File System
• System Isolation and Network Fast Fail Capability in Solaris
• CPU Time Measurement Errors
• Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Server Consolidation
• Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads
• The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
• Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resources
• Automatic Performance Tuning in the Zettabyte File System
• Existential QoS for Storage
• Postmortem Object Type Identification
• Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
• FireEngine - A New Networking Architecture for the Solaris Operating System

[musical recommendations: we will not bother with the obvious, even if it is beatles. so it is a toss up between joss stone's the soul sessions and talking heads' sand in the vaseline, depending on the mood.]

[2006.03.06: added a few more papers.]

[2006.03.08: Gary Riseborough kindly supplied some of the missing links. thanks gary.]

[2006.03.09: added bmc's type ident paper]