MigrOS: Transparent Live-Migration Support for Containerised RDMA Applications.
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Abstract
RDMA networks offload packet processing onto specialised circuitry of the network interface controllers (NICs) and bypass the OS to improve network latency and bandwidth. As a consequence, the OS forfeits control over active RDMA connections and loses the possibility to migrate RDMA applications transparently. This paper presents MigrOS, an OS-level architecture for transparent live migration of containerised RDMA applications. MigrOS shows that a set of minimal changes to the RDMA communication protocol reenables live migration without interposing the critical path operations. Our approach requires no changes to the user applications and maintains backwards compatibility at all levels of the network stack. Overall, MigrOS can achieve up to 33% lower network latency in comparison to software-only techniques.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 47-63 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference |
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| Abbreviated title | USENIX ATC 21 |
| Description | Co-located with 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2021) |
| Duration | 14 - 16 July 2021 |
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| Degree of recognition | International event |
| Location | Online |
| City | Santa Clara |
| Country | United States of America |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85111759757 |
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