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0x18 talks: AI/ML
by Jamal Hadi Salim 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Jasmine Mou and Krz Sywula give a moonshot talk on using Machine Learning Optimization Algorithms in HTTP Latency Tuning on Nginx. Jasmine and Krz discuss techniques for dealing with the massive number of tunables to identify the best parameter combinations for different workloads, and streamline the process to minimize human intervention. They focus on optimizing HTTP latency for an Nginx server. In this talk they discuss their methodology and share their experimental results. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/27 Jesse Brandeburg and Kamel Ayari present work on enhancing netdev reviews using AI. I have to admit my bias: This is my favorite submission! You dont need to read between the lines and guess the reviewers bias, it's a machine giving you feedback! Does this mean we are going to get rid of all those pesky reviewers? Come and find out ;-> More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/26 Jasmine Mou will give a talk on Machine Learning Practices in Network Traffic across Data Centers. With massive growth of network infrastructure it is getting overwhelming for network engineers in network traffic management and capacity planning. Jasmine will share ByteDance practices of how machine learning, statistical profiling, and visualization techniques are applied with network traffic data to address these challenges. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/16 Anjali Singhai, Shaopeng He and Sridhar Samudrala will give a talk on Advancing TCP with Device Memory[1] and Collective Communication(CC). Anjali, Shaopeng and Sridhar build up on devmem work on the Intel IPU NICs to enable efficient CC across clusters. The authors will present detailed performance data to demonstrate the enhanced TCP’s effectiveness, showcasing its comparability to RDMA and its superiority over standard TCP, particularly in handling larger packet sizes. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/33 cheers, jamal [1] devmen bof https://netdevconf.info/0x18/36

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0x18 talks: TCP related talks
by Jamal Hadi Salim 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Maryam Ataei Kachooei, Joshua Chung, Amber Cronin, Benjamin Peters(a)viasat.com, Feng Li, Jae Won Chung and Mark Claypool talk about a new TCP slow start algorithm SEARCH(Slow start Exit At Right CHokepoint). The authors state that with SEARCH they resolved challenges in wireless links with premature exits from slow start. They will share their kernel changes and results on experiments on WiFi, 4G/LTE, and low earth orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous (GEO) satellite links. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/1 John Ousterhout asks a question: Is it OK to Hijack TCP? John notes that TCP already has all kinds of classical goodies built into the HW offload infrastructure, example TSO, HW GRO, checksum, etc and he wants to take advantage of them. He proposes to masquerade HOMA as TCP on the sender and then disambiguating at the receiver. Come give him some feedback More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/19 Amery Hung and Xiaochun Lu will discuss Fine-grained tuning of TCP. Amery and Xiaochun observe that increasing link speeds are inducing the growth of number of flows seen on the wire, with a mix of long or short flows. Unfortunately traditional CC algos like CUBIC favor long flows which conflicts with application desires for throughput and latency. The authors discuss the techniques they use to address these challenges. More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x18/25 cheers, jamal

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0x18 talk: State of the union in TCP land
by Jamal Hadi Salim 14 Jun '24

14 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 13 Jun '24

13 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 11 Jun '24

11 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 10 Jun '24

10 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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