Paper Details

%T TCP Input Threading in High Performance Distributed Systems
%A Hans Henrik Happe
%E Peter H. Welch, Jon Kerridge, Frederick R. M. Barnes
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2006
%X TCP is the only widely supported protocol for reliable
   communication. Therefore, TCP is the obvious choice when
   developing distributed systems that need to work on a wide
   range of platforms. Also, for this to work a developer has
   to use the standard TCP interface provided by a given
   operating system. This work explores various ways to use
   TCP in high performance distributed systems. More precisely,
   different ways to use the standard Unix TCP API efficiently
   are explored, but the findings apply to other operating
   systems as well. The main focus is how various threading
   models affect TCP input in a process that has to handle both
   computation and I/O. The threading models have been
   evaluated in a cluster of Linux workstations and the results
   show that a model with one dedicated I/O thread generally is
   good. It is at most 10% slower than the best model in all
   tests, while the other models are between 30 to 194% slower
   in specific tests.

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