Messages in this thread | | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:14:43 -0700 |
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: >The fastest TCP latency I know of is about 80,000ns. The fastest Unet : >(no protocols, network mapped into the process' address space) latency : >is about 30,000ns. : > : : Are you sure about the 30,000ns figure? There are several solutions : that claim 2-3 microsecond latency using some custom hardware and : userspace libraries. These include : : Papers : http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers/ : : Shrimp : http://www.CS.Princeton.EDU/shrimp/ : : Parastation : http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/parastation/
You're right, I forgot about those. I was restricting myself to standard hardware. But those results are really impressive. I'd love to use them just for the distributed locks.
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