TEA
| Autor: | Zaoxing Liu, Daehyeok Kim, Jeongkeun Lee, Yibo Zhu, Srinivasan Seshan, Vyas Sekar, Changhoon Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Remote direct memory access
Computer science 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre 020204 information systems Network address Server Lookup table 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Systems architecture Forwarding plane Operating system computer Dram Block (data storage) |
| Zdroj: | SIGCOMM |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3387514.3405855 |
| Popis: | Programmable switches have been touted as an attractive alternative for deploying network functions (NFs) such as network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and firewalls. However, their limited memory capacity has been a major stumbling block that has stymied their adoption for supporting state-intensive NFs such as cloud-scale NATs and load balancers that maintain millions of flow-table entries. In this paper, we explore a new approach that leverages DRAM on servers available in typical NFV clusters. Our new system architecture, called TEA (Table Extension Architecture), provides a virtual table abstraction that allows NFs on programmable switches to look up large virtual tables built on external DRAM. Our approach enables switch ASICs to access external DRAM purely in the data plane without involving CPUs on servers. We address key design and implementation challenges in realizing this idea. We demonstrate its feasibility and practicality with our implementation on a Tofino-based programmable switch. Our evaluation shows that NFs built with TEA can look up table entries on external DRAM with low and predictable latency (1.8-2.2 μs) and the lookup throughput can be linearly scaled with additional servers (138 million lookups per seconds with 8 servers). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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