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Patronus: High-Performance and Protective Remote Memory

Bin Yan, Youyou Lu, Qing Wang, Minhui Xie, and Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University

RDMA-enabled remote memory (RM) systems are gaining popularity with improved memory utilization and elasticity. However, since it is commonly believed that fine-grained RDMA permission management is impractical, existing RM systems forgo memory protection, an indispensable property in a real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose PATRONUS, an RM system that can simultaneously offer protection and high performance. PATRONUS introduces a fast …

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