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Artifact of the paper: Taking the Leap: Efficient and Reliable Fine-Grained NUMA Migration in User-space

Authors: Schuhknecht, Felix; Rassau, Nick;

Artifact of the paper: Taking the Leap: Efficient and Reliable Fine-Grained NUMA Migration in User-space

Abstract

Modern multi-socket architectures offer a single virtual address space, but physically divide main-memory across multiple regions, where each region is attached to a CPU and its cores. While this simplifies the usage, developers must be aware of non-uniform memory access (NUMA), where an access by a thread running on a core-local NUMA region is significantly cheaper than an access from a core-remote region. For example, if the query answering within a database system is parallelized across the cores of multiple regions, then the portion of the database on which the query is operating should be distributed across the same regions to ensure local accesses. As the present data placement might not fit this, migrating pages from one NUMA region to another can be performed to improve the situation. To do so, different options exist: One option is to rely on automatic NUMA balancing integrated in Linux, which is steered by the observed access patterns and frequency. Another option is to actively trigger migration via the system call move_pages(). Unfortunately, both variants have significant downsides in terms of their feature set and performance. As an alternative, we propose a new user- space migration method called page_leap() that can perform page migration asynchronously at a high performance by exploiting features of the virtual memory subsystem. The method is (a) actively triggered by the user, (b) ensures that all pages are eventually migrated, (c) handles concurrent writes correctly, (d) supports pooled memory, (e) adaptively adjusts its migration granularity based on the workload, and (f) supports both small pages and huge pages.For instructions for reproducibility, please read the reproducibility_instructions.pdf and the READ.ME, which is contained in the artifacts. If you directly use the linked repository, make sure to use the "reproducibility" branch.

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