Paper Info
Title
The Peregrine high-performance RPC system
Abstract
The Peregrine RPC system provides performance very close to the optimum allowed by the hardware limits, while still supporting the complete RPC model. Implemented on an Ethernet network of Sun-3/60 workstations, a null RPC between two user-level threads executing on separate machines requires 573 mus. This time compares well with the fastest network RPC times reported in the literature, ranging from about 1100 to 2600 mus, and is only 309 mus above the measured hardware latency for transmitting the call and result packets in our environment. For large multi-packet RPC calls, the Peregrine user-level data transfer rate reaches 8.9 Mbit/s, approaching the Ethernet's 10 Mbit/s network transmission rate. Between two user-level threads on the same machine, a null RPC requires 149 mus. This paper identifies some of the key performance optimizations used in Peregrine, and quantitatively assesses their benefits.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1002/spe.4380230205
Softw., Pract. Exper.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
peregrine remote procedure call interprocess communication performance distributed sys- tems operating systems
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0038-0644
29
PageRank 
References 
Authors
7.55
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David B. Johnson1318.29
Willy Zwaenepoel25651813.97