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The performance of message-passing using restricted virtual memory remapping
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Fbufs: a high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility
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The integration of virtual memory management and interprocess communication in Accent
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Software support for outboard buffering and checksumming
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Cache behavior of network protocols
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Improving Web Server Performance by Network Aware Data Buffering and Caching
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Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System
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Copy Emulation in Checksummed, Multiple-Packet Communication
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Storage Over IP: When Does Hardware Support Help?
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Self-prevention of socket buffer overflow
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High-performance local area communication with fast sockets
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Melange: creating a "functional" internet
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Connection handoff policies for TCP offload network interfaces
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SEPCOM: customizable zero copy model
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Fast-path I/O architecture for high performance streaming server
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Storage over IP: when does hardware support help
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Affinity-aware DMA buffer management for reducing off-chip memory access
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Operating system support for multimedia systems
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Revisiting software zero-copy for web-caching applications with twin memory allocation
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This paper describes a new feature in Solaris that uses virtual memory remapping combined with checksumming support from the networking hardware, to eliminate data-touching overhead from the TCP/IP protocol stack. By implementing page remapping operations at the right level of the operating system, and caching MMU mappings to take advantage of locality of reference, significant performance gain is attained on certain hardware platforms. Nevertheless, the performance improvement over CPU copying varies, depending on the host memory cache architecture, MMU design, and application behavior. We begin by comparing different zero-copy schemes, and explain our preference for page remapping and copy-on-write (COW) techniques. We then describe our implementation, and present its performance characteristics under a number of different parameters. We conclude with ideas for future improvements.