Mako: a low-pause, high-throughput evacuating collector for memory-disaggregated datacenters
Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Michael D. Bond, Stephen Michael Blackburn, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu · 2022
Resource disaggregation has gained much traction as an emerging datacenter architecture, as it improves resource utilization and simplifies hardware adoption. Under resource disaggregation, different types of resources (memory, CPUs, etc.) are disaggregated into dedicated servers connected by high-speed network fabrics. Memory disaggregation brings efficiency challenges to concurrent garbage collection (GC), which is widely used for latency-sensitive cloud applications, because GC and mutator threads simultaneously run and constantly compete for memory and swap resources.