Title
Generic External Memory for Switch Data Planes.
Abstract
Network switches are an attractive vantage point to serve various network applications and functions such as load balancing and virtual switching because of their in-network location and high packet processing rate. Recent advances in programmable switch ASICs open more opportunities for offloading various functionality to switches. However, the limited memory capacity on switches has been a major challenge that such applications struggle to deal with. In this paper, we envision that by enabling network switches to access remote memory purely from data planes, the performance of a wide range of applications can be improved. We design three remote memory primitives, leveraging RDMA operations, and show the feasibility of accessing remote memory from switches using our prototype implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3286062.3286063
HotNets
Field
DocType
ISBN
Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Computer network,Network switch,Packet processing,Remote direct memory access,Remote memory,Auxiliary memory
Conference
978-1-4503-6120-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.57
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daehyeok Kim1987.77
Yibo Zhu255729.41
Changhoon Kim31716121.18
Jeongkeun Lee4108956.72
Srinivasan Seshan57268822.17