[svlug] [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]

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

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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!


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