Virtual-Link: A Scalable Multi-Producer, Multi-Consumer Message Queue Architecture for Cross-Core Communication

Cross-core communication is increasingly a bottleneck as the number of processing elements increase per systemon-chip. Typical hardware solutions to cross-core communication are often inflexible; while software solutions are flexible, they have performance scaling limitations. A key problem, as we will show, is that of shared state in software-based message queue mechanisms. This paper proposes Vi...