The packet generator （pktgen） is a fundamental module of the majority of soft- ware testers used to benchmark network pro- tocols and functions. The high performance of the pktgen is an important feature of Future I...The packet generator （pktgen） is a fundamental module of the majority of soft- ware testers used to benchmark network pro- tocols and functions. The high performance of the pktgen is an important feature of Future Internet Testbeds, and DPDK is a network packet accelerated platform, so we can use DPDK to improve performance. Meanwhile, green computing is advocated for in the fu- ture of the internet. Most existing efforts have contributed to improving either performance or accuracy. We, however, shifted the focus to energy-efficiency. We find that high per- formance comes at the cost of high energy consumption. Therefore, we started from a widely used high performance schema, deeply studying the multi-core platform, especially in terms of parallelism, core allocation, and fre- quency controlling. On this basis, we proposed an AFfinity-oriented Fine-grained CONtrolling （AFFCON） mechanism in order to improve energy efficiency with desirable performance. As clearly demonstrated through a series of evaluative experiments, our proposal can reduce CPU power consumption by up to 11% while maintaining throughput at the line rate.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 61472130, Research on Graphic Processing Units-based High-performance Packet Processing)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (No. 61702174)
文摘The packet generator （pktgen） is a fundamental module of the majority of soft- ware testers used to benchmark network pro- tocols and functions. The high performance of the pktgen is an important feature of Future Internet Testbeds, and DPDK is a network packet accelerated platform, so we can use DPDK to improve performance. Meanwhile, green computing is advocated for in the fu- ture of the internet. Most existing efforts have contributed to improving either performance or accuracy. We, however, shifted the focus to energy-efficiency. We find that high per- formance comes at the cost of high energy consumption. Therefore, we started from a widely used high performance schema, deeply studying the multi-core platform, especially in terms of parallelism, core allocation, and fre- quency controlling. On this basis, we proposed an AFfinity-oriented Fine-grained CONtrolling （AFFCON） mechanism in order to improve energy efficiency with desirable performance. As clearly demonstrated through a series of evaluative experiments, our proposal can reduce CPU power consumption by up to 11% while maintaining throughput at the line rate.
