5G UPF Acceleration with DPDK - Gal Cohen, NVIDIA

5G UPF Acceleration with DPDK - Gal Cohen, NVIDIA
User Plane Function (UPF) is a crucial networking element in 5G, providing high network bandwidths at low latency in a dynamic environment. Traditionally, network functions such as UPF were implemented in software and executed on CPUs running on host. However, with the increasing demand for networking, this approach faces challenges in terms of scale, power consumption, and performance. Over the past several years, DPDK community has made a considerable progress in enabling the execution and acceleration of network functions, such as UPF, using SmartNICs and DPUs. In this talk, we will delve into the technical aspects of implementing UPF with SmartNICs and DPUs, highlighting the benefits and addressing the challenges faced during the process. By leveraging DPDK acceleration techniques, we can achieve improved scalability, reduced power consumption, and enhanced performance in UPF deployments.
Accelerating Network Performance - The most popular kit to accelerate packet processing on a wide variety of CPU architectures Designed to run on x86, POWER and ARM processors, DPDK is a set of libraries running mostly in Linux userland, with a FreeBSD port available for a subset of features. www.dpdk.org/