PipeDevice
Qiang Su, Chuanwen Wang, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Dongsu Han, Chun Jason Xue, Hong Li Xu · 2022
Containers are prevalently adopted due to the deployment and performance advantages over virtual machines. For many containerized data-intensive applications, however, bulky data transfers may pose performance issues. In particular, communication across co-located containers on the same host incurs large overheads in memory copy and the kernel's TCP stack. Existing solutions such as shared-memory networking and RDMA have their own limitations, including insufficient memory isolation and limited scalability.