Abstract
Tiered memory systems introduce an additional memory level with higher-than-local-DRAM access latency and require sophisticated memory management mechanisms to achieve cost-efficiency and high performance. Recent works focus on byte-addressable tiered memory architectures which offer better performance than pure swap-based systems. We observe that adding disaggregation to a byte-addressable tiered memory architecture requires important design changes that deviate from the common techniques that target lowerlatency non-volatile memory systems. Our comprehensive analysis of real workloads shows that the high access latency to disaggregated memory undermines the utility of well-established memory management optimizations. Based on these insights, we develop HotBox – a disaggregated memory management subsystem for Linux that strives to maximize the local memory hit rate with low memory management overhead. HotBox introduces only minor changes to the Linux kernel while outperforming state-of-the-art systems on memory-intensive benchmarks by up to 2.25×.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management |
Editors | Michael Lippautz, David Chisnall |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 1-14 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-9267-9 |
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Publication status | Published - 14 Jun 2022 |
Event | 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management - San Diego, United States Duration: 14 Jun 2022 → 14 Jun 2022 https://conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2022 |
Symposium
Symposium | 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management |
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Abbreviated title | ISMMM 2022 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Diego |
Period | 14/06/22 → 14/06/22 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Disaggregated Memory
- Operating Systems