Data serialization is critical for many datacenter applications, but the memory copies required to move application data into packets are costly. Recent zero-copy APIs expose NIC scatter-gather capabilities, raising the possibility of offloading this data movement to the NIC. However, as the memory coordination required for scatter-gather adds bookkeeping overhead, scatter-gather is not always useful. We describe Cornflakes, a hybrid serialization library stack that uses scatter-gather for serialization when it improves performance and falls back to memory copies otherwise. We have implemented Cornflakes within a UDP and TCP networking stack, across Mellanox and Intel NICs. On a Twitter cache trace, Cornflakes achieves 15.4% higher throughput than prior software approaches on a custom key-value store and 8.8% higher throughput than Redis serialization within Redis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Data serialization is critical for many datacenter applications, but the memory copies required to move application data into packets are costly. Recent zero-copy APIs expose NIC scatter-gather capabilities, raising the possibility of offloading this data movement to the NIC. However, as the memory coordination required for scatter-gather adds bookkeeping overhead, scatter-gather is not always useful. 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