Bringing rte_flow Offload to Virtio - Christophe Fontaine, Red Hat

Bringing rte_flow Offload to Virtio - Christophe Fontaine, Red Hat
rte_flow api was created for hardware offload, but how to apply the same concepts for virtual interfaces ? We will see why this is useful for network functions, how to implement it, the modifications required in virtio, and a demo of the performance gains, removing the limitation of virtio, from 4Mpps to line-rate. We will also discuss the challenges in integrating this technology in openvswitch.
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/