Virtual-Memory-Mapped Network Interfaces

Matthias A. Blumrich; Cezary Dubnicki; Edward William Felten; Kai Li; Malena R. Mesarina

doi:10.1109/40.342014

Virtual-Memory-Mapped Network Interfaces

Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward William Felten, Kai Li, Malena R. Mesarina

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Abstract

In today's multicomputers, software overhead dominates the message-passing latency cost. We designed two multicomputer network interfaces that significantly reduce this overhead. Both support virtual-memory-mapped communication, allowing user processes to communicate without expensive buffer management and without making system calls across the protection boundary separating user processes from the operating system kernel. Here we compare the two interfaces and discuss the performance trade-offs between them.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	21-28
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	15
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/40.342014
State	Published - Feb 1995

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Software
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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