Direct Cache Access for High Bandwidth Network I/O
Proceedings of the 32nd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
Performance Characterization of a 10-Gigabit Ethernet TOE
HOTI '05 Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
ISPASS '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
TCP offload is a dumb idea whose time has come
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
Cloudoscopy: services discovery and topology mapping
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Cloud computing security workshop
vTurbo: accelerating virtual machine I/O processing using designated turbo-sliced core
USENIX ATC'13 Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
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Adoption of the 10GbE Ethernet standard as a high performance interconnect has been impeded by two important performance-oriented considerations: (1) processing requirements of common protocol stacks and (2) end-to-end latency. The overheads of typical software based protocol stacks on CPU utilization and throughput have been well evaluated in several recent studies. We focus on end-to-end latency and present a detailed characterization across typical server system hardware and software stack components. We demonstrate that application level end-to-end one-way latency with a 10GbE connection can be as low as 10 µs for a single isolated request in a standard Linux network stack. The paper analyzes the components of the latency and discusses possible significant variations to the components under realistic conditions. We found that methods that optimize for throughput can significantly compromise Ethernet based latencies. Methods to pursue reducing the minimum latency and controlling the variations are presented.