User-level communication in a system with gang scheduling

Y. Etsion, D. G. Feitelson

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Abstract

One of the scarce resources that limits communication performance is buffer space on the network interface card. This becomes even worse when it is partitioned among several time-sliced processes. However, if gang scheduling is used, it is possible to swap buffer contents as part of the context switch, giving each job the full buffer space for the duration of its quantum. This does not suffer undue overhead, as the buffer space is mainly used to allow a larger flow-control window, and typically does not contain many packets that need to be stored.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)0769509908, 9780769509907
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Event15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 23 Apr 200127 Apr 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001

Conference

Conference15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period23/04/0127/04/01

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© 2001 IEEE.

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