Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware.

Norbert Egi, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark Handley, Mickael Hoerdt, Felipe Huici, Laurent Mathy, Panagiotis Papadimitriou

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 x86 hardware. We also elaborate on our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.

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