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    DPDK-FQM: Framework for Queue Management Algorithms in DPDK
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Pandey, A.; Bargaje, G.; Avinash; Krishnam, S.; Anand, T.; Monis, L.; Tahiliani, M.P.
    The advantages of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) have attracted many use cases ranging from virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) to virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) and virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC). Fast packet processing libraries such as Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) are necessary to enable NFV. Currently, DPDK provides a framework for Quality of Service (QoS) which is used for queue management, traffic shaping and policing, but it lacks a general purpose queue management framework. In this paper, we propose DPDK-FQM, a framework to implement queue management algorithms in DPDK, run them and collect the desired statistics. Subsequently, we implement Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (PIE) and Controlled Delay (CoDel) queue management algorithms by using the proposed framework. We develop a new DPDK application to demonstrate the usage of APIs in DPDK-FQM, and verify the correctness of the framework and implementations of PIE and CoDel. Our experiments on a high speed network testbed show that PIE and CoDel exhibit their key characteristics by controlling the queue delay at a desired target, while fully utilizing the bottleneck bandwidth. © 2020 IEEE.
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    PowerDPDK: Software-Based Real-Time Power Measurement for DPDK Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Shah, M.; Yunus, M.; Vachhani, P.; Monis, L.; Tahiliani, M.P.; Talawar, B.
    Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) provides a set of libraries for fast packet processing that allow applications in the user space to directly interact with the NIC. Currently, DPDK provides a power management library that enables the applications to save power. However, it lacks features to effectively measure the power consumption of the system. In this paper we propose PowerDPDK, a software-based real-time library to measure the power consumption of DPDK applications. PowerDPDK leverages the Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) feature available on modern Intel processors to provide the power consumed by the CPU package and DRAM. We discuss the architecture of PowerDPDK and describe the process to incorporate it into DPDK applications. Subsequently, we use PowerDPDK to measure the power consumption of a few sample DPDK applications and a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in OpenNetVM, a high-performance container-based platform for Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We show that a major share of the power consumed by DPDK is due to the use of Poll Mode Drivers (PMD), and hence, even a simple Layer 2 forwarding application consumes a large amount of power. © 2020 IEEE.