PacketUsher: Exploiting DPDK to accelerate compute-intensive packet processing

doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2020.07.040

	PacketUsher: Exploiting DPDK to accelerate compute-intensive packet processing
	Ren, Qingqing 1; Zhou, Liang 2; Xu, Zhijun 1; Zhang, Yujun 1; Zhang, Lei 3
	2020-09-01
发表期刊	COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN	0140-3664
卷号	161 页码:324-333
摘要	Many compute-intensive network applications such as application-layer traffic generator, Deep Packet Inspection(DPI) and web servers are widely deployed on commodity PC for the reason of flexibility and cheap price. However, how to improve their performance on general purpose OS is challenging due to the high packet I/O related overheads. This paper presents PacketUsher, a high-performance packets processing framework to remove these performance bottlenecks. In building PacketUsher, we constructed a DPDK wrapper as the underlying packet I/O engine to accelerate packet transmission, and utilized the strategies of zero copy, batch processing and parallelism to improve packet processing. Through RFC2544 benchmark, we demonstrate that DPDK wrapper has excellent packets transmission capability. As a case study of PacketUsher, we design and implement a commercial application-layer traffic generator. The experiment results show that the FPS (Flow Per Second) value of our traffic generator over PacketUsher is more than 4 times of that over standard Linux platform. By comparison, the FPS value over PacketUsher is about 3 times of that over existing methods (Netmap and PF_RING).
关键词	Packet processing DPDK Performance improvement Commodity PC Traffic generation
DOI	10.1016/j.comcom.2020.07.040
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key Research and Development Program of China[2018YFB1800403] ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[E061010003] ; National Science Foundation of China[61902382] ; National Science Foundation of China[61972381] ; National Science Foundation of China[61672500] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDC02030500]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000575729300007
出版者	ELSEVIER
引用统计	被引频次：4[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/15646
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Zhang, Yujun
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA 3.Hebei Univ Technol, Tianjin, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ren, Qingqing,Zhou, Liang,Xu, Zhijun,et al. PacketUsher: Exploiting DPDK to accelerate compute-intensive packet processing[J]. COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS,2020,161:324-333.
APA	Ren, Qingqing,Zhou, Liang,Xu, Zhijun,Zhang, Yujun,&Zhang, Lei.(2020).PacketUsher: Exploiting DPDK to accelerate compute-intensive packet processing.COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS,161,324-333.
MLA	Ren, Qingqing,et al."PacketUsher: Exploiting DPDK to accelerate compute-intensive packet processing".COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS 161(2020):324-333.