The applicability of integrated layer processing

Author

Ahlgren, Bengt ; Björkman, Mats ; Gunningberg, Per G.

Author_Institution

Swedish Inst. of Comput. Sci., Kista, Sweden

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

331

Abstract

We review previous work on the applicability and performance of integrated layer processing (ILP). ILP has been shown to clearly improve computer communication performance when integrating simple data manipulation functions, but the situation has been less clear for more complex functions and complete systems. We discuss complications when applying ILP to protocol stacks, the requirements of ILP on the communication subsystem, caching aspects, the importance of the processor registers, and a model for predicting the performance of data manipulation functions. We conclude that the main drawback of ILP is its limited applicability to complex data manipulation functions. The performance to expect from an ILP implementation also depends heavily on the protocol architecture and the host system architecture

Keywords

cache storage; data handling; performance evaluation; transport protocols; workstations; caching aspects; communication subsystem; computer communication performance; computer communications software; data buffers; data manipulation functions; host system architecture; integrated layer processing; performance; processor registers; protocol architecture; protocol stacks; workstations; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Central Processing Unit; Communication system control; Communication system software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Delay; Predictive models; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.669041

Filename

669041