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0x18 talk: State of the union in TCP land
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Monsieur Eric Dumazet will give the classical State of the union in TCP land talk. It is rumored (I cant confirm or deny this!) that the Ninja may descend into the conference from the rooftop. Come and join in this enlightening talk! cheers, jamal

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0x18 talks: Performance enhancements and analysis
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Zijian Zhang, and Xiaochun Lu will present a talk on "a new lightweight Zero-Copy Notification Mechanism". Zijian and Xiaochun improve usability over MSG_ZEROCOPY as well achieve a 7% improvement over MSG_ZEROCOPY with TCP. This session will dive into technical implementation, challenges overcome, and the implications for future zerocopy network application development. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/14 Nabil Bitar, Jamal Hadi Salim, and Pedro Tammela will present a talk titled "Drinking From The Host Packet Fire Hose" D/IPUs have been introduced to deal with high speed (1-800 Gbps ports). The authors look at such devices from a host perspective and present brief data on the offload improvements and more focused analysis of traditional performance improvement techniques (ZC, TSO, etc) and argue that we need to have a symbiosis of traditional approaches with the new offloads. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/5 Joe Damato will give a talk titled "Real world tips, tricks, and notes of using epoll-based busy polling" Joe will share his experience on using epoll-based busy polling. He say that it has gotten easier with per-epoll context basis, but using it is still tricky without doing a deeper dive of the kernel networking code. Come and learn from Joe how to make use of this exciting feature. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/10 cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: Introduction to Falcon Reliable Transport
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Yadong Li, Jay Bhat, Nandita Dukkipati, Chen Zhao, Neelesh Bansod, Shiraz Saleem and Anjali Singhai Jain will give a talk on the Falcon Reliable Transport. What is Falcon you ask? It is a HW offloaded reliable transport designed by Google and published to satisfy demanding workloads that require high burst bandwidth, high message rates, and low latency. Massive-scale AI/ML training and high performance computing (HPC) have driven the demand for offloading. Falcon incorporates years of learnings in traffic shaping, congestion control, load balancing, and more all integrated into offload. More info: netdevconf.info/0x18/43 cheers, jamal

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0x18 BoFs: 3 more BoFs
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Willem de Bruijn, Jakub Kicinski, Mina Almasry, Shailend Chand, David Wei and Pavel Begunkov will run a BoF on Devmem TCP & io uring zero copy More Info: netdevconf.info/0x18/36 Anndrew Lunn will run a BoF on Netdev Processes, Community, and Respect/Reputation More info: netdevconf.info/0x18/38 Jakub Kicinski will run a BoF on Netdev Testing & Automation More info: netdevconf.info/0x18/29 cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: Multi-PF single netdev
by Jamal Hadi Salim 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Tariq Toukan will discuss creating multiple PFs for a single NIC in a multi-socket server, each with its own PCIE interface. Why do we need this you ask? Imagine a NUMA machine... you plug in a NIC.... as it sits today, the NIC gets connected on one of the NUMA nodes. If your application is running/scheduled on a different numa node then network traffic traverses over the internal bus between the sockets. The consequences are observed as significant latency, CPU utilization, and decreased network throughput. In this talk Tariq describes the Multi-PF technology under the Nvidia netdev driver which overcomes these challenges. The Multi-PF approach enables several CPUs within a multi-socket server to connect directly to the network, each through its own dedicated PCIe interface. For more information: netdevconf.info/0x18/24 cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: PSP Crypto Protocol and HW Offload
by Jamal Hadi Salim 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Arun Acharya, Anjali Singhai Jain, and Willem de Bruijn will give a talk on PSP. PSP is a security protocol that incorporates lessons from experiences with currently deployed L2, L3 and L4 crypto protocols. PSP, originally developed and deployed at Google, shares many concepts with IPSEC and is encapsulated in UDP to avoid network issues with less common IP protocols. PSP is purposely built to scale. It does not store an explicit SA in the ingress direction, but generates the ingress key on NIC from a device master key, combined with the SA SPI embedded in the packet. The full PSP Crypto Protocol Specification can be found at https://github.com/google/psp/doc Arun, Anjali and Willem will give an introduction to PSP and then dig further into PSP NIC hardware offload For more info: netdevconf.info/0x18/35 cheers, jamal

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0x18 bronze sponsor, Viasat
by Jamal Hadi Salim 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

We welcome first time sponsor, Viasat with a bronze sponsorship. Thank you Viasat! Who is Viasat? Viasat is a global communications company that connects people, businesses, governments, and communities through satellite broadband services and secure networking systems. Viasat brings affordable, high-quality connectivity to land, air, sea – and beyond, and ensures people on-the-go have access to the same quality of internet as they have at home. cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: benefits and drawbacks of syscall hooks
by Jamal Hadi Salim 09 Jun '24

09 Jun '24

System call intercepting is a common trick used in networking to extend or add new features and is commonly used by kernel emulators (user mode linux, or gvisor) and network libraries which offer replacement or extra massaging of for example socket API. The one big advantage provided by such schemes eg using LD_PRELOAD is you dont have to modify the application code. Hajime Tazaki and Kenichi Yasukata look a the history of this syscall hook approach, how the functionalirt has been improved over time. They will discuss outstanding challenges and how we can move forward in future to make this area even more appealing. cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: Linux networking on s390 architecture - Is it very different?
by Jamal Hadi Salim 09 Jun '24

09 Jun '24

Alexandra Winter and Niklas Schnelle will demystify the S390 for us. To some(including yours truly), the s390 is probably the most mysterious Linux architecture. As someone who has been around this neighborhood for a while, the most sticky knowledge i have of the s390 is it was doing virtualization way before virtualization was cool and existed in open source! Alexandra and Niklas say thatin many ways the s390 is just another processor architecture but it is indeed speacial when it comes to I/O and networking. The authors will break down for us the multiple levels of Hipervisors and IO-virtualization. About sharing resources with non-Linux systems. About network cards that are not attached via PCI. About network interfaces that are implemented in Hardware, Firmware or Hypervisor software and protocols that serve special purposes or predate ethernet. This talk will be an eye opener - i hope you are all looking forward to it as i do! cheers, jamal

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0x18 Talk: Scheduling HTTP streams
by Jamal Hadi Salim 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

In this talk Evgeny Mekhanik, Konstantin Tatar and Alexander Krizhanovsky assert that you need a very efficient stream scheduling mechanism to handle a busy web server which manages millions of TCP connections, each potentially containing hundreds of HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 streams. Additionally such a scheme must be resilient to DoS attacks. In this talk they will go over the different approaches taken by servers such Nginx, H2O, nghttp2 (Envoy, Apache HTTPD) and then compare them against their work with Tempesta FW. For more info: netdevconf.info/0x18/12 cheers, jamal

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