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A new server I/O architecture for high speed networks

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A new server I/O architecture for high speed networks
Traditional architectural designs are normally focused on CPUs and have been often decoupled from I/O considerations. They are inefficient for high-speed network processing with a bandwidth of 10Gbps and beyond. Long latency I/O interconnects on mainstream servers also substantially complicate the NIC designs. In this paper, we start with fine-grained driver and OS instrumentation to fully understand the network processing overhead over 10GbE on mainstream servers. We obtain several new findings: 1) besides data copy identified by previous works, the driver and buffer release are two unexpected major overheads (up to 54%); 2) the major source of the overheads is memory stalls and data relating to socket buffer (SKB) and page data structures are mainly responsible for the stalls; 3) prevailing platform optimizations like Direct Cache Access (DCA) are insufficient for addressing the network processing bottlenecks. Motivated by the studies, we propose a new server I/O architecture where ...
Guangdeng Liao, Xia Znu, Laxmi N. Bhuyan
Added 20 Aug 2011
Updated 20 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where HPCA
Authors Guangdeng Liao, Xia Znu, Laxmi N. Bhuyan
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