Authors:
(1) Tianyi Cui, University of Washington (cuity@cs.washington.edu);
(2) Chenxingyu Zhao, University of Washington (cxyzhao@cs.washington.edu);
(3) Wei Zhang, Microsoft (wei.zhang.gbs@gmail.com);
(4) Kaiyuan Zhang, University of Washington (kaiyuanz@cs.washington.edu). Editor's note: This is Part 5 of 6 of a study detailing attempts to optimize layer-7 load balancing. Read the rest below. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction
2 Background and 2.1 Programmable Multi-core SmartNICs

2.2 Load balancers


3 SmartNIC-based Load Balancers and 3.1 Offloading to SmartNICs: Challenges and Opportunities

3.2 Laconic Overview
3.3 Lightweight Network Stack
3.4 Lightweight synchronization for shared data
3.5 Acceleration with Hardware Engine


4 Evaluation and 4.1 Experiment Setup


4.2 End-to-end Throughput


4.3 End-to-end Latency


4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques


4.5 Real-world Workload



5 Related Work
6 Conclusion and References

A Appendix 5 Related Work Load Balancers. There are multiple works investigating high-performance load balancers. Katran [16] is an L4 load balancer implemented in eBPF. SilkRoad [38] and Hula [27] leverage programmable switches to build a high-performance L4 load balancer. Maglev [14] proposed by Google takes advantage of consistent hashing. Beamer [42] provides consistency without maintaining state. DRILL [19, 20] performs micro load balancing. Tiara [45] proposes a new hardware architecture for L4 load balancing. All of these works are based on connection-less load balancing and are unable to satisfy the need for connection-oriented L7 load balancing. Network stack acceleration. TAS [28] provides a host TCP networking acceleration service. FlexTOE [44] and IOTCP [30] offload the host TCP stack onto the SmartNICs. Snap [36] is a high-performance networking stack proposed by Google. AccelTCP [39] offloads the control path of TCP onto the SmartNIC. Kim, D., Lee, S., and Park, K [29] explore offloading the TLS control plane onto the SmartNIC. Zilberman [47] offloads packet processing with XDP. Netchannel [11] disaggregates the network stack. They only offload a part of the control path of the networking protocols onto the SmartNIC and do not touch L7 protocols. Measurements for SmartNIC. Multiple works provide valuable measurement for SmartNICs [26, 34]. Girondi et al. measured the performance of different high-speed concurrent hashtables [21]. We consulted these numbers during the design process. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED license. Authors: (1) Tianyi Cui, University of Washington (cuity@cs.washington.edu); (2) Chenxingyu Zhao, University of Washington (cxyzhao@cs.washington.edu); (3) Wei Zhang, Microsoft (wei.zhang.gbs@gmail.com); (4) Kaiyuan Zhang, University of Washington (kaiyuanz@cs.washington.edu). Authors: Authors: (1) Tianyi Cui, University of Washington (cuity@cs.washington.edu); (2) Chenxingyu Zhao, University of Washington (cxyzhao@cs.washington.edu); (3) Wei Zhang, Microsoft (wei.zhang.gbs@gmail.com); (4) Kaiyuan Zhang, University of Washington (kaiyuanz@cs.washington.edu). Editor's note: This is Part 5 of 6 of a study detailing attempts to optimize layer-7 load balancing. Read the rest below. Editor's note: This is Part 5 of 6 of a study detailing attempts to optimize layer-7 load balancing. Read the rest below. Editor's note: This is Part 5 of 6 of a study detailing attempts to optimize layer-7 load balancing. Read the rest below. Editor's note: This is Part 5 of 6 of a study detailing attempts to optimize layer-7 load balancing. Read the rest below. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Programmable Multi-core SmartNICs

2.2 Load balancers 3 SmartNIC-based Load Balancers and 3.1 Offloading to SmartNICs: Challenges and Opportunities

3.2 Laconic Overview
3.3 Lightweight Network Stack
3.4 Lightweight synchronization for shared data
3.5 Acceleration with Hardware Engine 4 Evaluation and 4.1 Experiment Setup


4.2 End-to-end Throughput


4.3 End-to-end Latency


4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques


4.5 Real-world Workload 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion and References

A Appendix Abstract and 1 Introduction Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Programmable Multi-core SmartNICs 2.2 Load balancers 2 Background and 2.1 Programmable Multi-core SmartNICs 2.2 Load balancers 2.2 Load balancers 3 SmartNIC-based Load Balancers and 3.1 Offloading to SmartNICs: Challenges and Opportunities 3.2 Laconic Overview
3.3 Lightweight Network Stack
3.4 Lightweight synchronization for shared data
3.5 Acceleration with Hardware Engine 3 SmartNIC-based Load Balancers and 3.1 Offloading to SmartNICs: Challenges and Opportunities 3.2 Laconic Overview 3.3 Lightweight Network Stack 3.4 Lightweight synchronization for shared data 3.5 Acceleration with Hardware Engine 3.2 Laconic Overview 3.3 Lightweight Network Stack 3.4 Lightweight synchronization for shared data 3.5 Acceleration with Hardware Engine 4 Evaluation and 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 End-to-end Throughput


4.3 End-to-end Latency


4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques


4.5 Real-world Workload 4 Evaluation and 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 End-to-end Throughput 4.3 End-to-end Latency 4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques 4.5 Real-world Workload 4.2 End-to-end Throughput 4.2 End-to-end Throughput 4.3 End-to-end Latency 4.3 End-to-end Latency 4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques 4.4 Evaluating the Benefits of Key Techniques 4.5 Real-world Workload 4.5 Real-world Workload 5 Related Work 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion and References A Appendix 6 Conclusion and References A Appendix A Appendix 5 Related Work Load Balancers. There are multiple works investigating high-performance load balancers. Katran [16] is an L4 load balancer implemented in eBPF. SilkRoad [38] and Hula [27] leverage programmable switches to build a high-performance L4 load balancer. Maglev [14] proposed by Google takes advantage of consistent hashing. Beamer [42] provides consistency without maintaining state. DRILL [19, 20] performs micro load balancing. Tiara [45] proposes a new hardware architecture for L4 load balancing. All of these works are based on connection-less load balancing and are unable to satisfy the need for connection-oriented L7 load balancing. Load Balancers. Network stack acceleration. TAS [28] provides a host TCP networking acceleration service. FlexTOE [44] and IOTCP [30] offload the host TCP stack onto the SmartNICs. Snap [36] is a high-performance networking stack proposed by Google. AccelTCP [39] offloads the control path of TCP onto the SmartNIC. Kim, D., Lee, S., and Park, K [29] explore offloading the TLS control plane onto the SmartNIC. Zilberman [47] offloads packet processing with XDP. Netchannel [11] disaggregates the network stack. They only offload a part of the control path of the networking protocols onto the SmartNIC and do not touch L7 protocols. Network stack acceleration. Measurements for SmartNIC. Multiple works provide valuable measurement for SmartNICs [26, 34]. Girondi et al. measured the performance of different high-speed concurrent hashtables [21]. We consulted these numbers during the design process. Measurements for SmartNIC. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv

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