Modeling and Analysis of OS Performance in High-Speed Networks

K. Salah; K. El-Badawi

Modeling and Analysis of OS Performance in High-Speed Networks

K. Salah^*, K. El-Badawi

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

Interrupt overhead of high-speed network devices can have a significant negative impact on the performance of traditional operating system. The negative impact is primarily due to interrupt overhead associated with the intense arrival of high-speed network packets. This paper presents models and analytical techniques for capturing the behavior and studying the performance of interrupt-driven kernels due to such high packet arrival rate. We first present an analytical study for the ideal system when interrupt overhead is ignored. We then present a second model which describes the impact of high interrupt rate on OS performance. The performance is studied in terms of system throughput, CPU availability, and system latency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in Computing, CIC 03
Editors	B.J. d' Auriol
Pages	249-255
Number of pages	7
State	Published - 2003

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Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in Computing

Keywords

Analysis
Gigabit Networks
Interrupts
Modeling
Operating Systems
Performance
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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