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FlexNIC: Rethinking Network DMA

Monday, May 18, 2015 - 2:00pm-2:30pm
Authors: 

Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington

Abstract: 

We propose FlexNIC, a flexible network DMA interface that can be used by operating systems and applications alike to reduce packet processing overheads. The recent surge of network I/O performance has put enormous pressure on memory and software I/O processing subsystems. Yet even at high speeds, flexibility in packet handling is still important for security, performance isolation, and virtualization.

Thus, our proposal moves some of the packet processing traditionally done in software to the NIC DMA controller, where it can be done flexibly and at high speed. We show how FlexNIC can benefit widely used data center server applications, such as key-value stores.

Antoine Kaufmann, University of Washington

Simon Peter, University of Washington

Thomas Anderson, University of Washington

Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {189894,
author = {Antoine Kaufmann and Simon Peter and Thomas Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy},
title = {{FlexNIC}: Rethinking Network {DMA}},
booktitle = {15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV)},
year = {2015},
address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/kaufmann},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may,
}
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