Title
Deadlocks in Datacenter Networks: Why Do They Form, and How to Avoid Them.
Abstract
Driven by the need for ultra-low latency, high throughput and low CPU overhead, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is being deployed by many cloud providers. To deploy RDMA in Ethernet networks, Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) must be used. PFC, however, makes Ethernet networks prone to deadlocks. Prior work on deadlock avoidance has focused on {\\em necessary} condition for deadlock formation, which leads to rather onerous and expensive solutions for deadlock avoidance. In this paper, we investigate {\\em sufficient} conditions for deadlock formation, conjecturing that avoiding {\\em sufficient} conditions might be less onerous.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/3005745.3005760
HotNets
Field
DocType
Citations 
Random graph,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Deadlock,Computer network,Ethernet,Flow control (data),Remote direct memory access,Throughput,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
21
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuihai Hu1475.49
Yibo Zhu255729.41
Peng Cheng3315.56
Chuanxiong Guo42582170.88
Kun Tan5135098.64
Jitendra Padhye66770514.84
Kai Chen774459.02