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Monday, October 13 • 4:30pm - 5:20pm
Hardware Accelerated Virtio Networking for NFV - Varun Sethi & Yashpal Dutta, Freescale

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Network function virtualization (NFV) leverages standard IT virtualization to consolidate multiple network functions on to a standard platform.The network functions are essentially decoupled from specialized hardware appliances, allowing them to run purely in software, as virtual machines. Network I/O with in the virtual machine becomes extremely critical, especially where network functions handle high traffic rate.
Virtio networking offers a flexible mechanism for sharing I/O interface among virtual machines (also suitable for VM migration). Despite the flexibility, there are performance challenges with virtio (even Vhost-net) for virtual network functions.
In this presentation we discuss the performance issues encountered and how these were mitigated with hardware offloads while running IP forwarding as a virtual network function under KVM hypervisor with Vhost-net networking.
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Yashpal Dutta

Yashpal Dutta is a Lead Design Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor India. He is involved in enabling network and security acceleration on Freescale SOCs. He has expertise in the performance analysis and optimizations for network and security applications. He has also worked on performance... Read More →
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Varun Sethi, Freescale

Software Architect, Freescale
Varun Sethi is a Software Architect at Freescale Semiconductor and is involved in virtualization software development for embedded Power Architecture SOCs. He has contributed to the KVM port for BookE.HV platforms and the e500mc core. He is the maintainer for Freescale PAMU driver... Read More →

Monday October 13, 2014 4:30pm - 5:20pm CEST
Room 16
  CloudOpen, Experience Level - Intermediate

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