{"title":"Application-Tailored I/O with Streamline","authors":"W. D. Bruijn, H. Bos, H. Bal","doi":"10.1145/1963559.1963562","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Streamline is a stream-based OS communication subsystem that spans from peripheral hardware to userspace processes. It improves performance of I/O-bound applications (such as webservers and streaming media applications) by constructing tailor-made I/O paths through the operating system for each application at runtime. Path optimization removes unnecessary copying, context switching and cache replacement and integrates specialized hardware. Streamline automates optimization and only presents users a clear, concise job control language based on Unix pipelines. For backward compatibility Streamline also presents well known files, pipes and sockets abstractions. Observed throughput improvement over Linux 2.6.24 for networking applications is up to 30-fold, but two-fold is more typical.","PeriodicalId":50918,"journal":{"name":"ACM Transactions on Computer Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"6:1-6:33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Transactions on Computer Systems","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1963559.1963562","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 21
Abstract
Streamline is a stream-based OS communication subsystem that spans from peripheral hardware to userspace processes. It improves performance of I/O-bound applications (such as webservers and streaming media applications) by constructing tailor-made I/O paths through the operating system for each application at runtime. Path optimization removes unnecessary copying, context switching and cache replacement and integrates specialized hardware. Streamline automates optimization and only presents users a clear, concise job control language based on Unix pipelines. For backward compatibility Streamline also presents well known files, pipes and sockets abstractions. Observed throughput improvement over Linux 2.6.24 for networking applications is up to 30-fold, but two-fold is more typical.
期刊介绍:
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) presents research and development results on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and use of computer systems and systems software. The term "computer systems" is interpreted broadly and includes operating systems, systems architecture and hardware, distributed systems, optimizing compilers, and the interaction between systems and computer networks. Articles appearing in TOCS will tend either to present new techniques and concepts, or to report on experiences and experiments with actual systems. Insights useful to system designers, builders, and users will be emphasized.
TOCS publishes research and technical papers, both short and long. It includes technical correspondence to permit commentary on technical topics and on previously published papers.