%0 Conference Paper %1 Boyd-Wickizer:2010:ALS:1924943.1924944 %A Boyd-Wickizer, Silas %A Clements, Austin T. %A Mao, Yandong %A Pesterev, Aleksey %A Kaashoek, M. Frans %A Morris, Robert %A Zeldovich, Nickolai %B Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation %C Berkeley, CA, USA %D 2010 %I USENIX Association %K imported postgresql scalability %P 1--8 %T An analysis of Linux scalability to many cores %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1924943.1924944 %X This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48- core computer. Except for gmake, all applications trigger scalability bottlenecks inside a recent Linux kernel. Using mostly standard parallel programming techniques-- this paper introduces one new technique, sloppy counters-- these bottlenecks can be removed from the kernel or avoided by changing the applications slightly. Modifying the kernel required in total 3002 lines of code changes. A speculative conclusion from this analysis is that there is no scalability reason to give up on traditional operating system organizations just yet.

@inproceedings{Boyd-Wickizer:2010:ALS:1924943.1924944, abstract = {This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48- core computer. Except for gmake, all applications trigger scalability bottlenecks inside a recent Linux kernel. Using mostly standard parallel programming techniques-- this paper introduces one new technique, sloppy counters-- these bottlenecks can be removed from the kernel or avoided by changing the applications slightly. Modifying the kernel required in total 3002 lines of code changes. A speculative conclusion from this analysis is that there is no scalability reason to give up on traditional operating system organizations just yet.}, acmid = {1924944}, added-at = {2011-04-14T16:39:11.000+0200}, address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}, author = {Boyd-Wickizer, Silas and Clements, Austin T. and Mao, Yandong and Pesterev, Aleksey and Kaashoek, M. Frans and Morris, Robert and Zeldovich, Nickolai}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eb865a3ec06fa24cd5c06b057990e7c7/schmidt2}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation}, description = {An analysis of Linux scalability to many cores}, interhash = {f86b57b5792f601a847ecea3f95d768c}, intrahash = {eb865a3ec06fa24cd5c06b057990e7c7}, keywords = {imported postgresql scalability}, location = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, numpages = {8}, pages = {1--8}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, series = {OSDI'10}, timestamp = {2011-04-14T16:39:11.000+0200}, title = {An analysis of Linux scalability to many cores}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1924943.1924944}, year = 2010 }