Eliminating receive livelock in an interrupt-driven kernel
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Comparing and improving current packet capturing solutions based on commodity hardware
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
High speed network traffic analysis with commodity multi-core systems
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A new server I/O architecture for high speed networks
HPCA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 17th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
Toward predictable performance in software packet-processing platforms
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
On multi---gigabit packet capturing with multi---core commodity hardware
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Netmap: a novel framework for fast packet I/O
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Using Direct Cache Access Combined with Integrated NIC Architecture to Accelerate Network Processing
HPCC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication & 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems
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The Internet has opened new avenues for information accessing and sharing in a variety of media formats. Such popularity has resulted in an increase of the amount of resources consumed in backbone links, whose capacities have witnessed numerous upgrades to cope with the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Consequently, network traffic processing at today's data transmission rates is a very demanding task, which has been traditionally accomplished by means of specialized hardware tailored to specific tasks. However, such approaches lack either of flexibility or extensibility--or both. As an alternative, the research community has pointed to the utilization of commodity hardware, which may provide flexible and extensible cost-aware solutions, ergo entailing large reductions of the operational and capital expenditure investments. In this chapter, we provide a survey-like introduction to high-performance network traffic processing using commodity hardware. We present the required background to understand the different solutions proposed in the literature to achieve high-speed lossless packet capture, which are reviewed and compared.