eXpress-Data-Path

Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the Operating System Kernel

Reproducing the experiments of the paper T. Høiland-Jørgensen, J. D. Brouer, D. Borkmann, J. Fastabend, T. Herbert, D. Ahern, et al., "The eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the Operating System Kernel", ACM CoNEXT, 2018.

Results

Check out the Report for results.

Experiment setup

The experiment setup follows RFC 2544 for Network benchmarking.

Directory structure

exp-setup/Vagrantfile - RFC 2544 setup in local using Vagrant.
benchmarks - Local benchmarks.
experiment-data - Local experiment data.
exp-setup/aws - RFC 2544 setup in aws cloud using Terraform.
exp-setup/aws/bench - Cloud Benchmarks.
exp-setup/aws/exp-data - Cloud experiment data.
report/xdp_report.pdf - Detail summary of experiment results