Title
Out of User Space Storage and RDMA
Abstract
User space applications must invoke kernels calls in order to have the operating system handle file system and device driver processing for storage requests. There is a high overhead associated with such calls, including the processing of suspending, scheduling and dispatching threads, interrupts, cache misses, etc. The overhead contributes to wasted processor cycles because all work on the thread being switched is stopped until the task switch is complete. The problem is worse for applications with a high storage I/O to compute ratio. Alternatives to enable user space applications to pass storage requests directly to I/O adapters without run-time involvement from the operating system would eliminate this overhead
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311914
Barcelona
Keywords
Field
DocType
file organisation,operating systems (computers),I/O adapter,RDMA,device driver processing,file system,kernels call,operating system,storage requests,user space storage
File system,Scheduling (computing),Cache,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Thread (computing),Remote direct memory access,User space,Operating system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1552-5244 E-ISBN : 1-4244-0328-6
1-4244-0328-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Ko1162.87
Renato Recio200.68
Salzberg, Claudia300.34