An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
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| author | Boyd-Wickizer, Silas Clements, Austin T. Mao, Yandong Pesterev, Aleksey Kaashoek, M. Frans Morris, Robert Tappan Zeldovich, Nickolai |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Boyd-Wickizer, Silas Clements, Austin T. Mao, Yandong Pesterev, Aleksey Kaashoek, M. Frans Morris, Robert Tappan Zeldovich, Nickolai |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/622032022-09-23T13:37:32Z An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores Boyd-Wickizer, Silas Clements, Austin T. Mao, Yandong Pesterev, Aleksey Kaashoek, M. Frans Morris, Robert Tappan Zeldovich, Nickolai Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Zeldovich, Nickolai Boyd-Wickizer, Silas Clements, Austin T. Mao, Yandong Pesterev, Aleksey Kaashoek, M. Frans Morris, Robert Tappan Zeldovich, Nickolai URL to paper from conference site This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48- core computer. Except for gmake, all applications trigger scalability bottlenecks inside a recent Linux kernel. Using mostly standard parallel programming techniques— this paper introduces one new technique, sloppy counters— these bottlenecks can be removed from the kernel or avoided by changing the applications slightly. Modifying the kernel required in total 3002 lines of code changes. A speculative conclusion from this analysis is that there is no scalability reason to give up on traditional operating system organizations just yet. Quanta Computer (Firm) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (0834415) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (0915164) Microsoft Research (Fellowship) Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellowship 2011-04-14T17:41:05Z 2011-04-14T17:41:05Z 2010-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62203 Boyd-Wickizer, Silas et al. "An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores." 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI10, 2010, Oct. 4-6 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-2703 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-586X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-9286 en_US http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf USENIX Association MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Boyd-Wickizer, Silas Clements, Austin T. Mao, Yandong Pesterev, Aleksey Kaashoek, M. Frans Morris, Robert Tappan Zeldovich, Nickolai An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title | An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title_full | An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title_fullStr | An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title_short | An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores |
| title_sort | analysis of linux scalability to many cores |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62203 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-2703 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-586X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-9286 |
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