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A New Mechanism for Transmission Notification on SMP

Eric Lemoine ¹, Congduc Pham ^a, 1, Laurent Lefèvre ^b, 1

N° RT-0295 (2004)

• a –  Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
• b –  INRIA
• 1:  RESO (INRIA Rhône-Alpes)
• 
  INRIA – CNRS : UMR5668 – École Normale Supérieure - Lyon France

Bibliographic reference

• Type of document: Research reports
• Domain: Computer Science/Other
• Title: A New Mechanism for Transmission Notification on SMP
• Abstract: This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a new technique aimed to reduce the number of interrupts due to transmitted packets in the parallel network subsystem . This technique combines interrupt and polling modes and relies on support in the Network Interface Controller --- per-processor transmit queues --- for distributing processing of transmission notifications among processors. Our prototype implementation on Linux and Myrinet yields performance gains of 16 on a 4-processor machine running a web server application.
• Full text language: English
• Report type: Research Report
• Page number: 16
• Publication date: 2004
• Keywords: PARALLEL NETWORKING SUBSYSTEM / PERFORMANCE / TRANSMISSION NOTIFICATIONS
• Writing date: 2004-05
• Internal note: RT-0295

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• Submitted on: Friday, 19 May 2006 18:25:54
• Updated on: Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:19:46