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Soft Timers: Efficient Microsecond Software Timer Support for Network Processing

Soft Timers: Efficient Microsecond Software Timer Support for Network Processing. Paper by: Mohit Aron and Peter Druschel of Rice University Presenter: Billy Cheung. Outline. Background: ScalaServer Timers Key Principles Motivation for Soft Timers Applications in Network setting

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Soft Timers: Efficient Microsecond Software Timer Support for Network Processing

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  1. Soft Timers: Efficient Microsecond Software Timer Support for Network Processing Paper by: Mohit Aron and Peter Druschel of Rice University Presenter: Billy Cheung

  2. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  3. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  4. ScalaServer: System Support for Scalable Network Servers http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/ScalaServer/

  5. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  6. Periodic Timer

  7. Soft Timer

  8. One-Shot Timer

  9. One Timer

  10. Two Timers

  11. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  12. Based on Convenience/Laziness

  13. Trigger States

  14. Timing Wheels

  15. Keep a large timing wheel A curser in the timing wheel moves one location every time unit (just like a seconds hand in the clock) If the timer interval is within a rotation from the current curser position then put the timer in the corresponding location Requires exponential amount of memory Simple Timing Wheel 0 1 7 2 6 3 5 4 START_TIMER = O(1) STOP_TIMER = O(1) PER_TICK_BOOKKEEPING = O(1) Taken from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/90/14085/00650142.pdf?arnumber=650142

  16. Disadvantages?

  17. Maximum Bound Time: Governed by periodic interrupt

  18. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  19. Why do we need them?

  20. Interrupts and context switches are expensive

  21. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  22. Rate-based Clocking

  23. Problem: ACK Compression

  24. Problem: big ACKs

  25. Problem: Slow start is slow

  26. Network Polling

  27. Problem: Transmit/Receiver Interrupts common

  28. Problem: Polling can cause horrible latency problems (especially with anything you need real-time)

  29. Outline • Background: • ScalaServer • Timers • Key Principles • Motivation for Soft Timers • Applications in Network setting • Rate-Based Clocking • Network Polling • Summary/Discussion

  30. Soft Timers work.

  31. References: ScalaServer: http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/ScalaServer/ Hashed and hierarchical timing wheels: Data structures for the efficient implementation of a timer facility: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=37504 Anticipatory scheduling: a disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=502046&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222

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