10 citations · 18 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.OS2025
Xkernel: Principled Performance Tunability of Operating System Kernels
Zhongjie Chen, Wentao Zhang, Yulong Tang +4
The Linux kernel is permeated with constant values that are critical to system performance. Many of these constants, referred to as perf-consts, are magic numbers with brittle assu…
cs.NI2016★ 8 cited
Isolating Mice and Elephant in Data Centers
Wenxue Cheng, Fengyuan Ren, Wanchun Jiang +3
Data centers traffic is composed by numerous latency-sensitive "mice" flows, which is consisted of only several packets, and a few throughput-sensitive "elephant" flows, which occu…
cs.NI2016★ 10 cited
Micro-burst in Data Centers: Observations, Implications, and Applications
Danfeng Shan, Fengyuan Ren, Peng Cheng +1
Micro-burst traffic is not uncommon in data centers. It can cause packet dropping, which results in serious performance degradation (e.g., Incast problem). However, current solutio…