Qiaobin Fu

Some efforts from Intel and Barefoot Networks are to [enable P4 in DPDK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI29_q-SoPU&feature=youtu.be). P4 is being extended to the CPU, FPGA and ASIC targets, which could allow Gatekeeper to easily...

One direction is to explore the trade-offs in DPDK's hash library among table occupancy, the maximum number of move tries when inserting an item, and throughput. An alternative solution is...

This pull request needs to resolve the conflicts.

Below is the performance evaluation of the master branch with our updated scripts: ``` | lcores | table size | GK Mpps rcvd (0%) | GK Mpps rcvd (50%) |...

Below is the performance evaluation after applying this pull request: ``` | lcores | table size | GK Mpps rcvd (0%) | GK Mpps rcvd (50%) | GK Mpps rcvd...

Below is the CPU cycles profiling with 3 lcores + 2^25 flow entries: ``` Samples: 668K of event 'cycles:ppp', Event count (approx.): 8729181903458, Thread: lcore-slave-12 Children Self Command Shared Object...

Below is the performance evaluation after applying the latest updated pull request: ``` | lcores | table size | GK Mpps rcvd (0%) | GK Mpps rcvd (50%) | GK...

An example SmartNIC with DPDK support is the [Marvell OCTEON TX2 Platform](https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/octeontx2.html), and they just announced the [industry’s first processor family scaling up to 200 Gbps](https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/embedded-processors/marvell-infrastructure-processors-octeon-tx2-cn92xx-cn96xx-cn98xx-product-brief-2020-02.pdf) in Feb 2020.

Another family of SmartNICs that can support 100+ Gbps throughput is [Mellanox SmartNICs](https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/solutions/SB_SmartNIC.pdf). They have three types of SmartNICs: ASIC-based, FPGA, or System-on-a-Chip (SOC) based. There are specific advantages and...

Section 2 of the SIGCOMM '19 paper - [Offloading distributed applications onto smartNICs using iPipe](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341302.3342079) provides detailed performance characterizations of the major components in four commercial Multicore SoC SmartNICs. We...