Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory (한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론)

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M-VIA Implementation on a Gigabit Ethernet Card

기가비트 이더넷상에서의 M-VIA 구현

  • 윤인수 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 정상화 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2002.12.01
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Abstract

The Virtual Interface Architecture(VIA) is an industry standard for communication over system area networks(SANs). M-VIA is a software implementation of VIA technology on Linux. In this paper, we implemented the M-VIA on an AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet by developing a new AceNIC driver for the M-VIA. We analyzed the M-VIA data segmentation processes. When a Gigabit Ethernet MTU is larger than 1514 bytes, M-VIA data segmentation size leaves much room for improvement. So we experimented with various MTU and M-VIA data segmentation size and compared the performances.

클러스터들을 연결시키는 통신 모델로 업계 표준인 VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture)가 있다. VIA의 소프트웨어적인 구현으로는 M-VIA를 대표적으로 들 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 TCP/IP를 지원하는 기존의 AceNIC 기가비트 이더넷 카드의 디바이스 드라이버에 수정을 가하여 M-VIA를 지원할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 그리고 M-VIA의 데이터 세그멘테이션 과정을 분석하여 기가비트 이더넷 카드가 1514 bytes이상의 MTU를 지원할 경우, 기존의 M-VIA 뎨이터 세그멘데이션 크기가 가지는 문제점을 보이며 이를 개선하기 위해 MTU와 M-VIA 데이터 세그멘테이션 크기를 다르게 해서 실험하였고 그 성능을 비교하였다.

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