Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-performance Inter-container Communications

Gabriele Ara, Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni, Carlo Vitucci

2020

Abstract

This work presents a framework for evaluating the performance of various virtual switching solutions, each widely adopted on Linux to provide virtual network connectivity to containers in high-performance scenarios, like in Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We present results from the use of this framework for the quantitative comparison of the performance of software-based and hardware-accelerated virtual switches on a real platform with respect to a number of key metrics, namely network throughput, latency and scalability.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ara G., Cucinotta T., Abeni L. and Vitucci C. (2020). Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-performance Inter-container Communications.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-424-4, pages 44-55. DOI: 10.5220/0009321200440055

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer20,
author={Gabriele Ara and Tommaso Cucinotta and Luca Abeni and Carlo Vitucci},
title={Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-performance Inter-container Communications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2020},
pages={44-55},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009321200440055},
isbn={978-989-758-424-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-performance Inter-container Communications
SN - 978-989-758-424-4
AU - Ara G.
AU - Cucinotta T.
AU - Abeni L.
AU - Vitucci C.
PY - 2020
SP - 44
EP - 55
DO - 10.5220/0009321200440055