Implementing Remote Procedure Calls

Andrew D. Birrell, Bruce Jay Nelson, 1984, ACM TOCS

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仍然执行（取决于该环境的并行性细节以及 RPC 实现）。

这个想法有许多吸引人的方面。其中之一是清晰而简单的语义：这应当使构建分布式计算并使其正确实现变得更加容易。另一个方面是效率：过程调用似乎足够简单，因此通信可以非常快速。第三个方面是通用性：在单机计算中，过程通常是算法各部分之间通信的最重要机制。

RPC 的思想已经存在了许多年。至少从 1976 年以来，它已经在公开文献中被多次讨论过 [15]。Nelson 的博士论文 [13] 对 RPC 系统的设计可能性进行了广泛研究，并引用了许多早期关于 RPC 的工作。然而，完整规模的 RPC 实现比论文设计更为少见。近期值得注意的工作包括 Xerox NS 协议族中的 Courier [4]，以及 MIT 当前的工作 [10]。

本文源于为 Cedar 项目构建 RPC 工具的工作。由于之前的工作（特别是 Nelson 的论文及相关实验），我们认为自己理解了 RPC 工具设计者必须做出的选择。我们的任务是在特定目标和环境的背景下做出这些选择。在实践中，我们发现若干领域的理解还不充分，并且我们构建了一个设计具有若干新颖方面的系统。

Remote procedure calls (RPC) appear to be a useful paradigm for providing communication across a network between programs written in a high-level language. This paper describes a package providing a remote procedure call facility, the options that face the designer of such a package, and the decisions we made. We describe the overall structure of our RPC mechanism, our facilities for binding RPC clients, the transport level communication protocol, and some performance measurements. We include descriptions of some optimizations used to achieve high performance and to minimize the load on server machines that have many clients.

CR Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.2 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Protocols—protocol architecture; C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems—distributed applications, network operating systems; D.4.4 [Operating Systems]: Communications Management—message sending, network communication; D.4.7[Operating Systems]: Organization and Design—distributed systems

General Terms: Design, Experimentation, Performance, Security

Additional Keywords and Phrases: Remote procedure calls, transport layer protocols, distributed naming and binding, inter-process communication, performance of communication protocols.

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1 INTRODUCTION

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2 BINDING

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3 PACKET-LEVEL TRANSPORT PROTOCOL

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4 PERFORMANCE

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5 STATUS AND DISCUSSIONS

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