TCP ≈ RDMA: CPU-efficient Remote Storage Access with i10

Authors: 

Jaehyun Hwang, Qizhe Cai, Ao Tang, and Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University

Abstract: 

This paper presents design, implementation and evaluation of i10, a new remote storage stack implemented entirely in the kernel. i10 runs on commodity hardware, allows unmodified applications to operate directly on kernel's TCP/IP network stack, and yet, saturates a 100Gbps link for remote accesses using CPU utilization similar to state-of-the-art user-space and RDMA-based solutions.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {246312,
author = {Jaehyun Hwang and Qizhe Cai and Ao Tang and Rachit Agarwal},
title = {{TCP} {≈} {RDMA}: {CPU-efficient} Remote Storage Access with i10 },
booktitle = {17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 20)},
year = {2020},
isbn = {978-1-939133-13-7},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {127--140},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/hwang},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = feb
}

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