Hare: a file system for non-cache-coherent multicores Citation
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Hare is a new file system that provides a POSIX-like interface on multicore processors without cache coherence. Hare allows applications on different cores to share files, directories, and file descriptors. The challenge in designing Hare is to support the shared abstractions faithfully enough to run applications that run on traditional shared-memory operating systems, with few modifications, and to do so while scaling with an increasing number of cores. To achieve this goal, Hare must support features (such as shared file descriptors) that traditional network file systems don’t support, as well as implement them in a way that scales (e.g., shard a directory across servers to allow concurrent operations in that directory). Hare achieves this goal through a combination of new protocols (including a 3-phase commit protocol to implement directory operations correctly and scalably) and leveraging properties of non-cache-coherent multiprocessors (e.g., atomic low-latency message delivery and shared DRAM). An evaluation on a 40-core machine demonstrates that Hare can run many challenging Linux applications (including a mail server and a Linux kernel build) with minimal or no modifications. The results also show these applications achieve good scalability on Hare, and that Hare’s techniques are important to achieving scalability.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015