A NIC-driven Architecture for High-speed IP Packet Forwarding on General-purpose Servers

• Item type: Journal(1)
• 公開日: 2022-03-15
• タイトル: A NIC-driven Architecture for High-speed IP Packet Forwarding on General-purpose Servers
• タイトル / 言語: en
• タイトル: A NIC-driven Architecture for High-speed IP Packet Forwarding on General-purpose Servers
• 言語: eng
• キーワード / 主題Scheme: Other
• キーワード / 主題: [特集:若手研究者] Ethernet NIC, packet forwarding, PCIe, Peer-to-Peer DMA
• 資源タイプ / 資源タイプ識別子: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
• 資源タイプ: journal article
• 著者所属: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo／Innovation Center, NTT Communications
• 著者所属: Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
• 著者所属: Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
• 著者所属: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo / Innovation Center, NTT Communications
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
• 著者名: Yukito, Ueno; Ryo, Nakamura; Yohei, Kuga; Hiroshi, Esaki
• 著者名(英): Yukito, Ueno; Ryo, Nakamura; Yohei, Kuga; Hiroshi, Esaki
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述: We propose a high-speed packet forwarding architecture on general-purpose servers, in which a Network Interface Card (NIC) drives packet forwarding by direct packet transfer to other NICs via a PCIe switch. The demand for high-speed packet forwarding technology on general-purpose servers is increasing with the spread of networking concepts such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV). However, the current architecture, which processes packets by CPU, cannot achieve the similar degree of performance that hardware routers can provide because the processing capacity of the CPU and the bandwidth of the main memory constrain the performance. Our proposed method, called P2PNIC, overcomes this constraint by eliminating the CPU and the main memory from the entire packet forwarding. In the P2PNIC architecture, a NIC determines to which NIC to forward the packets and directly transfers the packets to the NIC over the PCIe. We evaluate the P2PNIC architecture by comparing it with the DPDK applications as examples of the current architecture. The evaluation shows that the P2PNIC architecture achieves 3.44 times higher throughput and up to 79% lower latency than the DPDK applications. This study offers a new approach in software-based network infrastructure for achieving comparable performance with hardware routers in the future.; ------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.30(2022) (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.30.226; ------------------------------
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述: We propose a high-speed packet forwarding architecture on general-purpose servers, in which a Network Interface Card (NIC) drives packet forwarding by direct packet transfer to other NICs via a PCIe switch. The demand for high-speed packet forwarding technology on general-purpose servers is increasing with the spread of networking concepts such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV). However, the current architecture, which processes packets by CPU, cannot achieve the similar degree of performance that hardware routers can provide because the processing capacity of the CPU and the bandwidth of the main memory constrain the performance. Our proposed method, called P2PNIC, overcomes this constraint by eliminating the CPU and the main memory from the entire packet forwarding. In the P2PNIC architecture, a NIC determines to which NIC to forward the packets and directly transfers the packets to the NIC over the PCIe. We evaluate the P2PNIC architecture by comparing it with the DPDK applications as examples of the current architecture. The evaluation shows that the P2PNIC architecture achieves 3.44 times higher throughput and up to 79% lower latency than the DPDK applications. This study offers a new approach in software-based network infrastructure for achieving comparable performance with hardware routers in the future.; ------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.30(2022) (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.30.226; ------------------------------
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子タイプ: NCID
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子: AN00116647
• 書誌情報: 情報処理学会論文誌; 巻 63, 号 3, 発行日 2022-03-15
• ISSN / 収録物識別子タイプ: ISSN
• ISSN / 収録物識別子: 1882-7764