Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware.

Norbert Egi; Adam Greenhalgh; Mark Handley; Mickael Hoerdt; Felipe Huici; Laurent Mathy; Panagiotis Papadimitriou

doi:10.14279/tuj.eceasst.17.222

Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware.

Authors

Norbert Egi
Adam Greenhalgh
Mark Handley
Mickael Hoerdt
Felipe Huici
Laurent Mathy
Panagiotis Papadimitriou

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14279/tuj.eceasst.17.222

Abstract

Multi-core CPUs, along with recent advances in memory and buses, render commodity hardware a strong candidate for software router virtualization. In this context, we present the design of a new platform for virtual routers on x86 hardware. We also elaborate on our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.