A platform for high performance and flexible virtual routers on commodity hardware

Authors:
Norbert Egi;Adam Greenhalgh;Mark Handley;Mickael Hoerdt;Felipe Huici;Laurent Mathy;Panagiotis Papadimitriou
Affiliations:
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;University College London, London, United Kingdom;University College London, London, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Venue:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Year:
2010

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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 modern PC hardware. We further discuss our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.