An efficient design for fast memory registration in RDMA

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2008.07.008

	An efficient design for fast memory registration in RDMA
	Ou, Li ; He, Xubin 1; Han, Jizhong 2
	2009-05-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
ISSN	1084-8045
卷号	32 期号:3 页码:642-651
摘要	Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) improves network bandwidth and reduces latency by eliminating unnecessary copies from network interface card to application buffers, but the communication buffer management to reduce memory registration and deregistration cost is a significant challenge to be addressed. Previous studies use pin-down cache and batched deregistration, but only simple LRU is used as a replacement algorithm to manage cache space. In this paper, we evaluate the cost of memory registration in both user and kernel spaces. Based on our analysis, we reduce the overhead of communication buffer management in two aspects simultaneously: utilize a Memory Registration Region Cache (MRRC), and optimize the RDMA communication process of clients and servers with Fast RDMA Read and Write Process (FRRWP). MRRC manages memory in terms of memory region, and replaces old memory regions according to both their sizes and recency. FRRWP overlaps memory registrations between a client and a server, and allows applications to submit RDMA write operations without being blocked by message synchronization. We compare the performance of MRRC and FRRWP with traditional RDMA operations. The results show that our new design improves the total cost of memory registrations and overall communication latency by up to 70%. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	RDMA Memory registration Cache Performance evaluation
DOI	10.1016/j.jnca.2008.07.008
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:000266947800013
出版者	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
引用统计	被引频次：9[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/11584
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	He, Xubin
作者单位	1.Tennessee Technol Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Cookeville, TN 38505 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ou, Li,He, Xubin,Han, Jizhong. An efficient design for fast memory registration in RDMA[J]. JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS,2009,32(3):642-651.
APA	Ou, Li,He, Xubin,&Han, Jizhong.(2009).An efficient design for fast memory registration in RDMA.JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS,32(3),642-651.
MLA	Ou, Li,et al."An efficient design for fast memory registration in RDMA".JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 32.3(2009):642-651.