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FetchBPF: Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF
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Xuechun Cao, Shaurya Patel, Soo-Yee Lim, Xueyuan Han et al.
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TL;DR — Extends eBPF into the page-fault / prefetch path, giving user-space programs a safe, low-overhead hook to install custom hardware-prefetch policies without kernel modifications.
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Fast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere
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Jinghao Jia, Michael V. Le, Salman Ahmed 0001, Dan Williams 0001 et al.
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TL;DR — Eliminates the trap-based overhead of kprobes by using binary rewriting to instrument kernel functions at near-zero cost, enabling always-on production tracing."><meta name=author content="Publish Assistant"><link rel=canonical href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/atc-2024/><link crossorigin=anonymous href=/vincent/publish-assistant/assets/css/stylesheet.d72f07832e13c592b3edba91680bfe70f01daac396179bcace0ac36e8e0494c6.css integrity="sha256-1y8Hgy4TxZKz7bqRaAv+cPAdqsOWF5vKzgrDbo4ElMY=" rel="preload stylesheet" as=style><link rel=icon href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/favicon.ico><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=16x16 href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/favicon-16x16.png><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=32x32 href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/favicon-32x32.png><link rel=apple-touch-icon href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/apple-touch-icon.png><link rel=mask-icon href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/safari-pinned-tab.svg><meta name=theme-color content="#2e2e33"><meta name=msapplication-TileColor content="#2e2e33"><link rel=alternate hreflang=en href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/atc-2024/><noscript><style>#theme-toggle,.top-link{display:none}</style><style>@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){:root{--theme:rgb(29, 30, 32);--entry:rgb(46, 46, 51);--primary:rgb(218, 218, 219);--secondary:rgb(155, 156, 157);--tertiary:rgb(65, 66, 68);--content:rgb(196, 196, 197);--code-block-bg:rgb(46, 46, 51);--code-bg:rgb(55, 56, 62);--border:rgb(51, 51, 51);color-scheme:dark}.list{background:var(--theme)}.toc{background:var(--entry)}}</style></noscript><script>localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="dark"?document.querySelector("html").dataset.theme="dark":localStorage.getItem("pref-theme")==="light"?document.querySelector("html").dataset.theme="light":window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches?document.querySelector("html").dataset.theme="dark":document.querySelector("html").dataset.theme="light"</script><meta property="og:url" content="https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/atc-2024/"><meta property="og:site_name" content="Publish Assistant"><meta property="og:title" content="ATC 2024 Digest"><meta property="og:description" content="12 papers selected.
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FetchBPF: Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF Xuechun Cao, Shaurya Patel, Soo-Yee Lim, Xueyuan Han et al.
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TL;DR — Extends eBPF into the page-fault / prefetch path, giving user-space programs a safe, low-overhead hook to install custom hardware-prefetch policies without kernel modifications.
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Fast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere Jinghao Jia, Michael V. Le, Salman Ahmed 0001, Dan Williams 0001 et al.
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TL;DR — Eliminates the trap-based overhead of kprobes by using binary rewriting to instrument kernel functions at near-zero cost, enabling always-on production tracing."><meta property="og:locale" content="en_us"><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="article:section" content="cloud-edge"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00"><meta name=twitter:card content="summary"><meta name=twitter:title content="ATC 2024 Digest"><meta name=twitter:description content="12 papers selected.
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FetchBPF: Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF Xuechun Cao, Shaurya Patel, Soo-Yee Lim, Xueyuan Han et al.
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TL;DR — Extends eBPF into the page-fault / prefetch path, giving user-space programs a safe, low-overhead hook to install custom hardware-prefetch policies without kernel modifications.
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Fast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere Jinghao Jia, Michael V. Le, Salman Ahmed 0001, Dan Williams 0001 et al.
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TL;DR — Eliminates the trap-based overhead of kprobes by using binary rewriting to instrument kernel functions at near-zero cost, enabling always-on production tracing."><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Edge and Cloud Systems","item":"https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Digests","item":"https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ATC 2024 Digest","item":"https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/atc-2024/"}]}</script><script type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"ATC 2024 Digest","name":"ATC 2024 Digest","description":"12 papers selected.\nFetchBPF: Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF Xuechun Cao, Shaurya Patel, Soo-Yee Lim, Xueyuan Han et al.\nTL;DR — Extends eBPF into the page-fault / prefetch path, giving user-space programs a safe, low-overhead hook to install custom hardware-prefetch policies without kernel modifications.\nFast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere Jinghao Jia, Michael V. 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<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-chevron-right"><polyline points="9 18 15 12 9 6"/></svg></nav><h1 class="post-title entry-hint-parent">ATC 2024 Digest</h1><div class=post-meta><span title='2024-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>January 1, 2024</span> · <span>Publish Assistant</span></div></header><div class="post-content md-content"><p>12 papers selected.</p><hr><h3 id=fetchbpf-customizable-prefetching-policies-in-linux-with-ebpf>FetchBPF: Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#fetchbpf-customizable-prefetching-policies-in-linux-with-ebpf>#</a></h3><p><em>Xuechun Cao, Shaurya Patel, Soo-Yee Lim, Xueyuan Han <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Extends eBPF into the page-fault / prefetch path, giving user-space programs a safe, low-overhead hook to install custom hardware-prefetch policies without kernel modifications.</p><hr><h3 id=fast-trapless-kernel-probes-everywhere>Fast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#fast-trapless-kernel-probes-everywhere>#</a></h3><p><em>Jinghao Jia, Michael V. Le, Salman Ahmed 0001, Dan Williams 0001 <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Eliminates the trap-based overhead of kprobes by using binary rewriting to instrument kernel functions at near-zero cost, enabling always-on production tracing.</p><hr><h3 id=fbmm-making-memory-management-extensible-with-filesystems>FBMM: Making Memory Management Extensible With Filesystems<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#fbmm-making-memory-management-extensible-with-filesystems>#</a></h3><p><em>Bijan Tabatabai, James Christopher Sorenson III, Michael M. Swift</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Proposes delegating Linux virtual-memory management to filesystem drivers via a clean abstraction layer, opening the OS memory subsystem to the same extensibility that filesystems enjoy.</p><hr><h3 id=limitations-and-opportunities-of-modern-hardware-isolation-mechanisms>Limitations and Opportunities of Modern Hardware Isolation Mechanisms<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#limitations-and-opportunities-of-modern-hardware-isolation-mechanisms>#</a></h3><p><em>Xiangdong Chen, Zhaofeng Li 0004, Tirth Jain, Vikram Narayanan <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Empirically evaluates Intel MPK, RISC-V sPMP, and related primitives and shows that their performance and safety properties diverge sharply from vendor claims, motivating a fresh look at hardware-assisted compartmentalization.</p><hr><h3 id=fastcommit-resource-efficient-performant-and-cost-effective-file-system-journaling>FastCommit: resource-efficient, performant and cost-effective file system journaling<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#fastcommit-resource-efficient-performant-and-cost-effective-file-system-journaling>#</a></h3><p><em>Harshad Shirwadkar, Saurabh Kadekodi, Theodore Y. Ts’o</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Redesigns ext4 journal commits to write only changed metadata deltas rather than full blocks, slashing journaling overhead while preserving crash consistency — and is already deployed in the Linux kernel.</p><hr><h3 id=zms-zone-abstraction-for-mobile-flash-storage>ZMS: Zone Abstraction for Mobile Flash Storage<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#zms-zone-abstraction-for-mobile-flash-storage>#</a></h3><p><em>Joo Young Hwang, Seokhwan Kim, Daejun Park 0002, Yong-Gil Song <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Introduces a zone-based abstraction that exposes the append-only write semantics of mobile UFS flash to the OS, cutting write amplification and GC overhead by an order of magnitude on mobile workloads.</p><hr><h3 id=ethane-an-asymmetric-file-system-for-disaggregated-persistent-memory>Ethane: An Asymmetric File System for Disaggregated Persistent Memory<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#ethane-an-asymmetric-file-system-for-disaggregated-persistent-memory>#</a></h3><p><em>Miao Cai 0001, Junru Shen, Baoliu Ye</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Proposes a split-path file system design where reads bypass the server entirely and writes use lightweight logging, achieving near-DRAM read latency on disaggregated persistent memory.</p><hr><h3 id=streamcache-revisiting-page-cache-for-file-scanning-on-fast-storage-devices>StreamCache: Revisiting Page Cache for File Scanning on Fast Storage Devices<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#streamcache-revisiting-page-cache-for-file-scanning-on-fast-storage-devices>#</a></h3><p><em>Zhiyue Li, Guangyan Zhang</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Demonstrates that the Linux page cache becomes a bottleneck — not a benefit — for sequential scans on NVMe SSDs, and replaces it with a lightweight streaming buffer that halves latency for analytical workloads.</p><hr><h3 id=perf-preemption-enabled-rdma-framework>PeRF: Preemption-enabled RDMA Framework<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#perf-preemption-enabled-rdma-framework>#</a></h3><p><em>Sugi Lee, Mingyu Choi, Ikjun Yeom, Younghoon Kim</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Adds fine-grained preemption to RDMA by intercepting work-queue operations at the NIC driver level, enabling priority isolation for latency-sensitive RPC traffic sharing a fabric with bulk transfers.</p><hr><h3 id=osmosis-enabling-multi-tenancy-in-datacenter-smartnics>OSMOSIS: Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Datacenter SmartNICs<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#osmosis-enabling-multi-tenancy-in-datacenter-smartnics>#</a></h3><p><em>Mikhail Khalilov, Marcin Chrapek, Siyuan Shen, Alessandro Vezzu <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Designs an OS-like resource manager for SmartNIC compute and memory that enforces tenant isolation and QoS, showing that shared-SmartNIC deployments are practical without sacrificing performance.</p><hr><h3 id=mmtls-scaling-the-performance-of-encrypted-network-traffic-inspection>mmTLS: Scaling the Performance of Encrypted Network Traffic Inspection<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#mmtls-scaling-the-performance-of-encrypted-network-traffic-inspection>#</a></h3><p><em>Junghan Yoon, Seunghyun Do, Duckwoo Kim, Taejoong Chung <em>et al.</em></em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Splits TLS session state across multiple cores using a novel sharding scheme, removing the per-connection serialization bottleneck in middlebox TLS inspection and achieving near-linear multi-core scaling.</p><hr><h3 id=unimem-redesigning-disaggregated-memory-within-a-unified-local-remote-memory-hierarchy>UniMem: Redesigning Disaggregated Memory within A Unified Local-Remote Memory Hierarchy<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#unimem-redesigning-disaggregated-memory-within-a-unified-local-remote-memory-hierarchy>#</a></h3><p><em>Yijie Zhong, Minqiang Zhou, Zhirong Shen, Jiwu Shu</em></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong> — Collapses the local/remote memory distinction into a single unified hierarchy with a new page-placement runtime, achieving transparent memory disaggregation with significantly lower tail latency than prior CXL-based approaches.</p></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags></ul><nav class=paginav><a class=prev href=https://pub.sqrt.fr/vincent/publish-assistant/cloud-edge/digests/ccgrid-2024/><span class=title>« Prev</span>
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