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Acceleration of Open vSwitch
Vodák, David ; Orsák, Michal (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Virtual switch is a program, which is used for connecting virtual machines to network and that is why it is a crucial part of server virtualization. However virtual switch is consuming too much performance of the server which it is running on. A measurement of Open vSwitch (OvS) indicates that for data speed of 10 Gb/s, approximately 4 cores of the processor are fully occupied. As the consumption of performance is directly proportional to transmission speed, it may eventually get to the point where the consumption of performance cannot be handled. This bachelor thesis is about acceleration of the Open vSwitch with the help of the DPDK Poll Mode Driver extended by support of the SR-IOV virtualization technology as well as the interface for offloading classification rules to hardware called RTE flow. In the scope of this thesis the SR-IOV is implemented and then tested on OvS. Furthermore, the RTE flow support was designed and partially implemented.
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I/O Virtualization in Networking
Perešíni, Martin ; Kekely, Lukáš (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Existuje veľa rôznych dôvodov pre spoločnosti a organizácie, prečo by mali investovať do virtualizácie. Asi najväčší dôvod je finančná motivácia, pretože nasadenie virtualizácie môže ušetriť nemálo peňazí. Táto práca sa zaoberá práve problémom virtualizácie I/O operácií v sieťovom prostredí. Cieľom práce je tvorba softvérových ovládačov pre I/O virtualizáciu, ktoré by mohli pracovať s hardvérovo akcelerovanými sieťovými kartami. Hlavným prínosom ovládačov by mala byť použiteľnosť a čo najmenšia strata prenosového výkonu vo virtualizovanom prostredí. Pred popisom finálnych detailov ovládačov je však potrebné uviesť potrebné teoretické základy. Teoretická časť sa zaoberá súčasnými trendami vo virtualizácii I/O, technológiami ako sú virtio, vhost, SR-IOV, VFIO a mdev. V praktickej časti sú navrhuté dva spôsoby riešenia problému. Prvým je použitie technológie virtio (emulácia softvéru). Druhé je založené na technológii VFIO-mdev (hybridná paravirtualizácia). Pokiaľ sa jedná o výkon a konfigurovateľnosť zariadení, oba prístupy majú rôzne benefity. Tieto riešenia majú aj svoje nevýhody, ako je zložitosť riešenia a náročnosť integrácie do systému. Požadované ciele boli úspešne dosiahnuté vo forme prototypu ovládača nfb_mdev.
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Acceleration of Open vSwitch in DPDK
Vodák, David ; Kučera, Jan (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Virtual switch is a software that connects virtual machines to the internet, which makes it a crucial part of virtualization on servers. Nevertheless, it can be rather ineffective when it comes to high speed traffic, since it switches all frames in the software. This thesis is about hardware acceleration of the virtual switch called Open vSwitch. The acceleration prototype, which is the goal of this thesis, is based on the RTE flow interface, the SR-IOV standard, and Intel PAC N3000 card. In the scope of this master's thesis, all necessary technologies were described and the acceleration prototype was designed, implemented, and tested. Results of executed measurements indicate increased throughput when rules of the acceleration prototype were offloaded to hardware.
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Virtualization of I/O Operations in Computer Networks
Remeš, Jan ; Martínek, Tomáš (referee) ; Matoušek, Denis (advisor)
This work deals with virtualization of computer systems and network cards in high-speed computer networks, and describes implementation of the SR-IOV virtualization technology support in the COMBO network card platform. Various approaches towards network card virtualization are compared, and the benefits of the SR-IOV technology for high performance applications are described. The work gives overview of the COMBO platform and describes design and implementation of the SR-IOV technology support for the COMBO platform. The work concludes with measurement and analysis of the implemented technology performance in virtual machines. The result of this work is the COMBO cards' support for the SR-IOV technology, which makes it possible to use them in virtual machines with wire-speed performance preserved. This allows future COMBO cards to be used as accelerators in the networks utilizing the Network Function Virtualization.
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Acceleration of Open vSwitch in DPDK
Vodák, David ; Kučera, Jan (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Virtual switch is a software that connects virtual machines to the internet, which makes it a crucial part of virtualization on servers. Nevertheless, it can be rather ineffective when it comes to high speed traffic, since it switches all frames in the software. This thesis is about hardware acceleration of the virtual switch called Open vSwitch. The acceleration prototype, which is the goal of this thesis, is based on the RTE flow interface, the SR-IOV standard, and Intel PAC N3000 card. In the scope of this master's thesis, all necessary technologies were described and the acceleration prototype was designed, implemented, and tested. Results of executed measurements indicate increased throughput when rules of the acceleration prototype were offloaded to hardware.
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I/O Virtualization in Networking
Perešíni, Martin ; Kekely, Lukáš (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Existuje veľa rôznych dôvodov pre spoločnosti a organizácie, prečo by mali investovať do virtualizácie. Asi najväčší dôvod je finančná motivácia, pretože nasadenie virtualizácie môže ušetriť nemálo peňazí. Táto práca sa zaoberá práve problémom virtualizácie I/O operácií v sieťovom prostredí. Cieľom práce je tvorba softvérových ovládačov pre I/O virtualizáciu, ktoré by mohli pracovať s hardvérovo akcelerovanými sieťovými kartami. Hlavným prínosom ovládačov by mala byť použiteľnosť a čo najmenšia strata prenosového výkonu vo virtualizovanom prostredí. Pred popisom finálnych detailov ovládačov je však potrebné uviesť potrebné teoretické základy. Teoretická časť sa zaoberá súčasnými trendami vo virtualizácii I/O, technológiami ako sú virtio, vhost, SR-IOV, VFIO a mdev. V praktickej časti sú navrhuté dva spôsoby riešenia problému. Prvým je použitie technológie virtio (emulácia softvéru). Druhé je založené na technológii VFIO-mdev (hybridná paravirtualizácia). Pokiaľ sa jedná o výkon a konfigurovateľnosť zariadení, oba prístupy majú rôzne benefity. Tieto riešenia majú aj svoje nevýhody, ako je zložitosť riešenia a náročnosť integrácie do systému. Požadované ciele boli úspešne dosiahnuté vo forme prototypu ovládača nfb_mdev.
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Acceleration of Open vSwitch
Vodák, David ; Orsák, Michal (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Virtual switch is a program, which is used for connecting virtual machines to network and that is why it is a crucial part of server virtualization. However virtual switch is consuming too much performance of the server which it is running on. A measurement of Open vSwitch (OvS) indicates that for data speed of 10 Gb/s, approximately 4 cores of the processor are fully occupied. As the consumption of performance is directly proportional to transmission speed, it may eventually get to the point where the consumption of performance cannot be handled. This bachelor thesis is about acceleration of the Open vSwitch with the help of the DPDK Poll Mode Driver extended by support of the SR-IOV virtualization technology as well as the interface for offloading classification rules to hardware called RTE flow. In the scope of this thesis the SR-IOV is implemented and then tested on OvS. Furthermore, the RTE flow support was designed and partially implemented.
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Virtualization of I/O Operations in Computer Networks
Remeš, Jan ; Martínek, Tomáš (referee) ; Matoušek, Denis (advisor)
This work deals with virtualization of computer systems and network cards in high-speed computer networks, and describes implementation of the SR-IOV virtualization technology support in the COMBO network card platform. Various approaches towards network card virtualization are compared, and the benefits of the SR-IOV technology for high performance applications are described. The work gives overview of the COMBO platform and describes design and implementation of the SR-IOV technology support for the COMBO platform. The work concludes with measurement and analysis of the implemented technology performance in virtual machines. The result of this work is the COMBO cards' support for the SR-IOV technology, which makes it possible to use them in virtual machines with wire-speed performance preserved. This allows future COMBO cards to be used as accelerators in the networks utilizing the Network Function Virtualization.
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