Title :
Adopting system call based address translation into user-level communication
Author :
Lee, Moon-Sang ; Lee, Sang-Kwon ; Lee, Joonwon ; Maeng, Seung-Ryoul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol.
Abstract :
User-level communication alleviates the software overhead of the communication subsystem by allowing applications to access the network interface directly. For that purpose, efficient address translation of virtual address to physical address is critical. In this study, we propose a system call based address translation scheme where every translation is done by the kernel instead of a translation cache on a network interface controller as in the previous cache based address translation. According to our experiments, our scheme achieves up to 4.5 % reduction in application execution time compared to the previous cache based approach
Keywords :
cache storage; network interfaces; operating system kernels; cache based approach; network interface controller; software overhead; system call based address translation; user-level communication; Application software; Communication system software; Control systems; Costs; Delay; Electronic mail; Hardware; Kernel; Network interfaces; Protocols;
Journal_Title :
Computer Architecture Letters
DOI :
10.1109/L-CA.2006.2