Measuring the Performance of Communication Middleware on High-Speed Networks：（测量的性能在高速网络通信中间件）.pdfVIP

Measuring the Performance of Communication Middleware on High-Speed Networks Aniruddha Gokhale and Douglas C. Schmidt gokhale@ and schmidt@ Department of Computer Science, Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130, USA An earlier version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings this type of software; yet all too frequently communication of the SIGCOMM Conference, 1996, Stanford University, software fails to achieve its performance and functionalityre- August, 1996. quirements. Communication middleware based on the Com- mon Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [13] is a promising approach for improving the flexibility, reliabil- Abstract ity, and portability of communication software. CORBA is Conventional implementations of communication middle- designed to enhance distributed applications by automating ware (such as CORBA and traditional RPC toolkits) incur common networking tasks such as object registration, loca- considerable overhead when used for performance-sensitive tion, and activation; request demultiplexing; framing and applications over high-speed networks. As gigabit networks error-handling; parameter marshalling and demarshalling ; become pervasive, inefficient middleware will force program- and operation dispatching. mers to use lower-level mechanisms to achieve the necessary Experience over