Improving Reactivity to I/O Events in Multithreaded Environments Using a Uniform, Scheduler-Centric API

Authors:
Luc Bougé;Vincent Danjean;Raymond Namyst
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Euro-Par '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Reactivity to I/O events is a crucial factor for the performance of modern multithreaded distributed systems. In our scheduler-centric approach, an application detects I/O events by requesting a service from a detection server, through a simple, uniform API. We show that a good choice for this detection server is the thread scheduler. This approach simplifies application programming, significantly improves performance, and provides a much tighter control on reactivity.