February 2019 - people - netdevconf.info

0x13: Nuts and bolts Talk, Veth XDP: XDP for containers
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Toshiaki Makita and William Tu will describe their effort on improving container network acceleration. The talk will go into details of both veth XDP as well as AF_XDP. More info: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-veth-xdp A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot, HW acceleration of XDP real world use cases
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

XDP has seen great use in addressing challenges such as DDOS attack detection and prevention, stateful load balancing and more. In this talk Rony Efraim and Tal Gilboa present a solution architecture and API approach that show cases hardware-software interaction for accelerated HW XDP. Their work is based on Mellanox hardware. They hope to elicit a discussion to further look at future capabilities based on programmable adapters. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-hw-accel-xdp-use-cases A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: nutsnbolts, Demystifying The TC Ugly (or Universal) 32bit Key Packet Classifier
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

The ugly^WBeatiful 32 bit classifier is the mother of all classifiers in the linux kernel. It is the only native classifier that can be taught by a user policy "how to" classify based on user traffic heuristics. U32 is a low level classifier operating on packet-offset-length-value. Sometimes this could be confusing for the faint-hearted. In this talk, Jamal et al are going to dig into u32 and show basic principles, expose flexibility for customization. They will then illustrate customization use cases for a small(hundreds of rules) and a medium sized (10s of thousands of rules) LAN access control and provide performance numbers. More info: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/news.html?talk-tc-u-classifier A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot talk, Shenango: Achieving High CPU Efficiency for Latency-sensitive, Datacenter Workloads
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Datacenter applications demand microsecond-scale tail latencies and high request rates from operating systems. Achieving these goals in a CPU-efficient way is an open problem. Because of the high overheads of today’s kernel, the best available solution to achieve microsecond-scale latencies is kernel-bypass networking, which dedicates CPU cores to applications for spin-polling the network card. But this approach wastes CPU: even at modest average loads, one must dedicate enough cores for the peak expected load. In this talk Amy Ousterhout will describe the approach taken by Shenango which achieves much better CPU efficiency while maintaining the high request rates. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-shenango A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: V-switch Live-migration Support For Virtio With SRIOV VF Datapath
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

NutsBolts Talk. As of kernel 4.18 the virtio guest driver uses the SRIOV VF channel when it can or otherwise falls back to the classical the para-virtual channel. With this setup live-migration of VMs running under SRIOV is possible. Or Gerlitz and Parav Pandit handle the v-switch host side of the equation for live-migration. They propose a design based on the switchdev mode for NIC host drivers. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-v-switch-virtio-sriov-vf-data… A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot talk, Paced Chirping - Rethinking TCP start-up
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

TCP slow start faces a dilemma: Either you take too long to ramp up or you ramp up too fast and cause significant queuing delays. Joakim Misund et al defined Paced Chirping which gets a flow to achieve fast acceleration with virtually no queuing delay The implementation extends the kernel's pacing framework to allow a congestion control module to create "chirps" with desired characteristics. Joakim will describe the implementation and how one would use the extensions. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/news.html?talk-chirp A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot talk, Making the Linux TCP stack more extensible with eBPF
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Viet-Hoang Tran and Olivier Bonaventure leverage Lawrence Brakmo's eBPF TCP-BPF framework to allow TCP options extensions. Users can attach eBPF code to inject and consume TCP options. The authors will describe the code architecture (currently on top of Kernel 4.17-rc5), illustrate their use cases and finally provide performance numbers. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-tcp-ebpf A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot Talk, Designing sockets for U-LPWA wireless technologies
by Jamal Hadi Salim 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) wireless technologies sacrifice data throughput for long-range communication with to preserve battery lifetime. Andreas Färber created a design to bring LoRa PHY sockets into the Linux kernel, with LoRaWAN MAC layered on top. As he interacted with other LPWA or WPA network technologies stake holders it was natural for more discussions to surface. This talk will give an update on where the discussions have gone for LoRa, FSK, etc., with focus on netlink layer, protocol families and socket addresses. Andreas hopes to elicit more discussions and reach a consensus. More info: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/news.html?talk-ulpwa A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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0x13: Moonshot Talk, End-to-end networking with ILNP
by Jamal Hadi Salim 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

The Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) is defined as an Experimental Internet Protocol by the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) in RFCs 6740-6748. At the heart of the ILNP architecture is the desire to address the deprecation of IP addresses. ILNP replaces IP address semantics with use of node Identifiers and network Locators using IPv6. No application changes needed. Current kernel implementation is on top of 4.19. Ryo and Saleem plan to upgrade to a newer kernel and push upstream. In this talk they will describe the ILNP architecture, the kernel implementation of ILNP and include results of testbed experiments for IP-level mobility. More info: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-ilnp cheers, jamal

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0x13: Talk, Moonshot: Improved syscall batching for network I/O
by Jamal Hadi Salim 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Network applications can benefit from reduced CPU cycles by amortizing the system call overhead of network I/O operations. In this talk Rahul et al review two existing interfaces for network I/O batching namely recvmmsg()/sendmmsg() and SO_RCVLOWAT and then propose extensions to these mechanisms. We show an 8x syscall reduction with our traffic patterns (gaming scenarios) with the usage of such extensions. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-syscall-batch A reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal

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