DaRPC: Data center RPC

Patrick Stuedi, Animesh Trivedi, Bernard Metzler, Jonas Pfefferle

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Abstract

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) has been the cornerstone of distributed systems since the early 80s. Recently, new classes of large-scale distributed systems running in data centers are posing extra challenges for RPC systems in terms of scaling and latency. We find that existing RPC systems make very poor usage of resources (CPU, memory, network) and are not ready to handle these upcoming workloads. In this paper we present DaRPC, an RPC framework which uses RDMA to implement a tight integration between RPC message processing and network processing in user space. DaRPC efficiently distributes computation, network resources and RPC resources across cores and memory to achieve a high aggregate throughput (2-3M ops/sec) at a very low per-request latency (10μs with iWARP). In the evaluation we show that DaRPC can boost the RPC performance of existing distributed systems in the cloud by more than an order of magnitude for both throughput and latency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2014
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)1595930361, 9781450332521
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2014 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 3 Nov 20145 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2014

Conference

Conference5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period3/11/145/11/14

Keywords

  • RDMA
  • Remote Procedure Call

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