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SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Software support for outboard buffering and checksumming
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IO-lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
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ISCA '02 Proceedings of the 29th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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ICPP '00 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing
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ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
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This paper introduces network interface data caching, a new technique to reduce local interconnect traffic on networking servers by caching frequently-requested content on a programmable network interface. The operating system on the host CPU determines which data to store in the cache and for which packets it should use data from the cache. To facilitate data reuse across multiple packets and connections, the cache only stores application-level response content (such as HTTP data), with application-level and networking headers generated by the host CPU. Network interface data caching can reduce PCI traffic by up to 57% on a prototype implementation of a uniprocessor web server. This traffic reduction results in up to 31% performance improvement, leading to a peak server throughput of 1571 Mb/s.