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Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS, Network Systems Laboratory (NS Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0034-5098
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS, Network Systems Laboratory (NS Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1269-2190
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS, Network Systems Laboratory (NS Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3890-6583
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Communication Systems, CoS, Network Systems Laboratory (NS Lab).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5083-4052
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2022 (English)In: Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022, USENIX - The Advanced Computing Systems Association, 2022, p. 807-827Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Data centers increasingly deploy commodity servers with high-speed network interfaces to enable low-latency communication. However, achieving low latency at high data rates crucially depends on how the incoming traffic interacts with the system's caches. When packets that need to be processed in the same way are consecutive, i.e., exhibit high temporal and spatial locality, caches deliver great benefits.

In this paper, we systematically study the impact of temporal and spatial traffic locality on the performance of commodity servers equipped with high-speed network interfaces. Our results show that (i) the performance of a variety of widely deployed applications degrades substantially with even the slightest lack of traffic locality, and (ii) a traffic trace from our organization reveals poor traffic locality as networking protocols, drivers, and the underlying switching/routing fabric spread packets out in time (reducing locality). To address these issues, we built Reframer, a software solution that deliberately delays packets and reorders them to increase traffic locality. Despite introducing μs-scale delays of some packets, we show that Reframer increases the throughput of a network service chain by up to 84% and reduces the flow completion time of a web server by 11% while improving its throughput by 20%.

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USENIX - The Advanced Computing Systems Association, 2022. p. 807-827
Keywords [en]
packet ordering, spatial and temporal locality, packet scheduling, batch processing, high-speed networking
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Communication Systems
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Computer Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-304656ISI: 000876762200046Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85140983450OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-304656DiVA, id: diva2:1609944
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19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), APR 04-06, 2022, Renton, WA
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ULTRAWASPTime-Critical Clouds
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Swedish Foundation for Strategic ResearchKnut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationEU, European Research Council
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Available from: 2021-11-09 Created: 2021-11-09 Last updated: 2023-06-19Bibliographically approved

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