Title
CBufs: efficient, system-wide memory management and sharing.
Abstract
Modern systems are composed of many different protection domains separating privilege levels, subsystems, users, clients, and software of differing levels of assurance. System-wide memory management must consider not only allocation to single processes, but also efficient sharing of data across protection domains, and the allocation of memory based on the performance of applications that span multiple protection domains. This paper introduces the CBuf system for the global management of virtual and physical memory, including zero-copy sharing between protection domains. We present the design and implementation of both garbage collection techniques to enable efficient sharing, and policies that balance memory between protection domains specifically to satisfy system and application constraints such as quality of service. We show that a CBuf-enabled webserver achieves over a factor of 2.5 throughput speedup while using less processing time than Apache on Linux, and that the system can intentionally control system throughput through intelligent memory allocation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/3241624.2926703
ISMM
Keywords
Field
DocType
garbage collection, memory management, shared memory, zero-copy
Memory protection,Interleaved memory,Extended memory,Computer science,Virtual memory,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Memory management,Memory map,Region-based memory management,Distributed shared memory
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
51
11
0362-1340
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4317-6
1
0.35
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuxin Ren1294.49
Gabriel Parmer219018.88
Teo Georgiev310.35
Gedare Bloom46813.95