FastClick

[tbarbette]

Hi all,

@rg0now told me this list accepts contribution, so I'd like to propose FastClick that could be in the "interesting" graph-based list. Not sure how to add as the list seems auto-generated?

@inproceedings{barbette2015fast,
author = {Barbette, Tom and Soldani, Cyril and Mathy, Laurent},
title = {Fast Userspace Packet Processing},
year = {2015},
isbn = {9781467366328},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {USA},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems},
pages = {5–16},
numpages = {12},
keywords = {high-speed net- working, fast packet i/o, network processing., click modular router, netmap, multi-queue, intel dpdk, userspace i/o, numa},
location = {Oakland, California, USA},
series = {ANCS ’15}
}

A description could be :

The paper reviews and quantitatively compare several high-speed packet I/O frameworks, showing their superiority to kernel-based forwarding. Authors then reconsider their integration in the Click Modular Router, in the context of modern commodity hardware with hardware multi-queues, multi-core processors and non-uniform memory access. Through a combination of existing techniques and improvements of their own, authors derive modern general principles for the design of software packet processors. After 5 years of continuous development, FastClick is still an up-to-date choice for fast prototyping of high-speed (100G and beyond) packet processing as shown in various recent literature.

I think RSS++ could also fit in the list. It is somewhere between "Programmable NIC", "Embedded State" and "Load-balancing" because it leverages the NIC's RSS mechanism to ensure load-balancing while not breaking state though a new sub-table design to allow efficient state management.

Cheers,

Tom