Advanced programming in the UNIX environment
Advanced programming in the UNIX environment
IO-lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Zero copy I: user-mode perspective
Linux Journal
Cost-effective streaming server implementation using Hi-tactix
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition
Speeding up TCP/IP: faster processors are not enough
PCC '02 Proceedings of the Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2002. on 21st IEEE International
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The standard OS and server platform hardware have not been optimized for applications that transfer large multimedia files, resulting in poor server I/O performance. One source of the problem is that several redundant copies are introduces when the data is transferred from disks to a Network Interface Card. To solve the problem of redundant copies, we propose a Contents Delivery Accelerator that accelerates large file transfers by eliminating the redundant copies from disks to the NIC. To eliminate the redundant copies, the CDA introduces a new function, called a logical direct link, which provides the shortest path from the disks to the NIC. By using the shortest path, we can completely eliminate the redundant copies, thereby improving the I/O performance of server. The CDA architecture is a combined hardware-software approach. Thus, it comprises CDA hardware and a modified Linux kernel. We implemented the current version of the CDA on a Linux 2.4.18 kernel and an IXP1200 evaluation board. In the experiment, we compared the logical-direct path with a redundant path. For the transfer of data from disks to the NIC, our experimental results show that the average transfer latency of a direct path is as much as 30 percent less than a redundant path.