Sr. Principal EngineerNetwork Platforms Group

Venky Venkatesan

December 09 , 2016

Network Transformation & DPDK

Network Platforms Group 2

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DPDK evolution

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2006/7Internal Research:Initial in-kernel packet processing prototype

2007Internal Research: First user space driver

2008First datapathprototype: 42 MPPS

Light Weight Runtime Executive

2010I/O Performance:55 MPPS

2-Socket Xeon“Westmere”

2011I/O Performance: 80 MPPS

2-Socket Xeon “Sandy Bridge”

2011NFV Research Results

2009-10Prototype/Research: “Could we build a complete network application on a standard server platform?”

“Virtualized data plane?”

Network functions that use DPDK …

Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems

(IDS, IPS)

Firewalls, Proxies, NAT

Routers, Integrated Service Routers

L3-L7 Load Balancers

WAN Acceleration

VPN Access gateways

Wireless InfrastructureRadio Net Controllers

Wireless InfrastructureVirtual EPC

InfrastructureDNS Servers

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Anti-DDOS systems

Virtual Switches

Wired InfrastructureBRAS

Content Distribution Systems

WAN Transfer

Network Forensics Storage (SPDK)

Cloud Infrastructure

The NFV Innovation Path

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20129 Use Case Definitions

2013Proof-of-Concepts

20141st Commercial Deployments

2015More Deployments

1.1 1.2.3

DPDK 1.2.3publicly

available on intel.com

DPDK.org established

1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 2.0 2.1 2.2

2016FD.io

16.04 16.07 1611

What's next? •Bring the learnings of DPDK & FD.io to more applications

– Speed up – Make DPDK more generally applicable

•TCP/IP stack - TLDK in FD.io– Focused on performance (connections/sec, throughtput)

• Innovate …– And question old assumptions

Some things to think about …•DPDK can complete a { send and receive } of a packet every ~50 cycles

•On a single core, we could do ~50M packets per second of pure packet I/O

•What could you do with the other cores on the platform?

Questions?