Internship Projects/Mentors: Anuket ViNePerf/ Al Morton Sridhar Rao Federica Paganelli
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Today, most virtualized functions rely on the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) in user space to achieve high data plane packet processing and bypass kernel processing. The XDP ( eXpress Data Path) is an eBPF based high performance data path merged in the Linux kernel since version 4.8. The idea behind XDP is to add an early hook in the receive path of the kernel, and let a user supplied eBPF program decide the fate of the packet.
The central activity in this project is to compare DPDK and XDP data plane performance, using standard benchmarking methods which are the main focus of the ViNePerf Project. Additional development will be required to configure and automate the testing for XDP. Many benchmarking tools used today are DPDK-based, so we seek alternatives for a complete XDP-based test architecture.
Some key questions to answer are:
- Can this be an alternative to DPDK based solutions?
- What are the parameters that affect the performance - Golden Configuration
- What are the right test methodologies?
- What are the right test-tools - Traffic Generators with test traffic measurements, Packet Forwarders, etc.
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Title | Paper | Comments |
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| ViNePerf Globecom 2021 Paper | <need link> | Fundamental background for this work |
| Building Hybrid Virtual Network Functions with eXpress Data Path | ||
| Performance Evaluation of eXpress Data Path for Container-Based Network Functions - Thesis | ||
| An In-Kernel Solution Based on XDP for 5G UPF: Design, Prototype and Performance Evaluation | ||
| Demystifying the Performance of XDP BPF | ||
| A Framework for eBPF-Based Network Functions in an Era of Microservices |
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