[svlug-announce] SVLUG March 1st meeting: Sven-Thorson Dietrich & Becca Nitzan on Enterprise Networking w/ vRouter: R&D & Performance of the Vyatta DPDK Architecture
Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]>
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WHEN: Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 7pm-8:30pm MAIN PRESENTATION TOPIC: Enterprise Networking with vRouter: R&D & Performance of the Vyatta DPDK Architecture PRESENTED BY: Sven-Thorson Dietrich, Kernel Developer/Systems Architect at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. and Becca Nitzan, Principal Engineer, Brocade Vyatta SDN, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. TOPIC SUMMARY: The Vyatta team has been developing and delivering bleeding-edge, Linux-based software networking technology since 2005. With the proliferation of low-cost 10G Ethernet, the Vyatta router encountered challenges when 10G links were saturated with small packets. Vyatta R&D began working with the DPDK (http://dpdk.org/), which promised to achieve higher throughput and lower latency. This presentation is a synopsis of the router performance gains we have achieved, and the R&D challenges we encountered on the road. We will walk though our experiences with real-time, driver support, HW considerations on performance such as NIC / NUMA locations, pinning and flows, CPU considerations, as well as roadblocks like broken hardware, broken BIOS, RRMR, and UEFI support, and will close with a look ahead to 100G technology. ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebigcorporation) is a Systems Architect at Brocade Communications Systems in San Francisco, and previously was a software engineer at Novell and at MontaVista. He's been known to describe himself as a "Real-Time Linux aficionado." Becca Nitzan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/becca-nitzan-b1a45621) is Principal Engineer for Brocade Vyatta SDN at Brocade Communications Systems in San Francisco, and previously had positions at Juniper Networks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. LOCATION: Cavium cafeteria 2315 N 1st St. (corner of Charcut Ave.) north San Jose Directions on how to get there are listed at: http://www.svlug.org/directions/cavium.php <--- maps here! We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate. If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know! [email protected] POST-MEETING GATHERING: La Victoria Taqueria, 1415 N 4th St. near Gish Road, San Jose. Go south 0.7 miles on N. 1st St. under US-101, then turn half-left onto Matrix Blvd., in 0.3 miles a slight right onto N. 4th Street, 0.5 miles to La Victoria on your right just before Gish Road. We look forward to seeing you there! _______________________________________________ svlug-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug-announce