MELO: Memory Efficient Loss Recovery for Hardware-based Transport in Datacenter

Limited by the small on-chip memory, hardware-based transport typically implements go-back-N loss recovery mechanism, which costs very few memory but is well-known to perform inferior even under small packet loss ratio. We present MELO, an efficient selective retransmission mechanism for hardware-based transport, which consumes only a constant small memory regardless of the number of concurrent connections. Specifically, MELO employs an architectural separation between data and meta data storage and uses a shared bits pool allocation mechanism to reduce meta data on-chip memory footprint. By only adding in average 23B extra on-chip states for each connection, MELO achieves up to 14.02x throughput while reduces 99% tail FCT by 3.11x compared with go-back-N under certain loss ratio.

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Memory Efficient Loss Recovery for Hardware-based Transport in Datacenter.
Yuanwei Lu, Guo Chen, Zhenyuan Ruan, Wencong Xiao, Bojie Li, Jiansong Zhang, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng, Enhong Chen.
Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ‘17). [PDF] [Slides]

I only participated in the discussion of the MELO project. Credits should go to Dr. Yuanwei Lu.

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2017-08-03
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