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PerfSight: Performance Diagnosis for Software Dataplanes

Published: 28 October 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The advent of network functions virtualization (NFV) means that data planes are no longer simply composed of routers and switches. Instead they are very complex and involve a variety of sophisticated packet processing elements that reside on the OSes and software running on compute servers where network functions (NFs) are hosted. In this paper, we argue that these new "software data planes" are susceptible to at least three new classes of performance problems. To diagnose such problems, we design, implement and evaluate, PerfSight, a ground-up system that works by extracting comprehensive low-level information regarding packet processing and I/O performance of the various elements in the software data plane. Name then analyzes the information gathered in various dimensions (e.g., across all VMs on a machine, or all VMs deployed by a tenant). By looking across aggregates, we show that it becomes possible to detect and diagnose key performance problems. Experimental results show that our framework can result in accurate detection of the root causes of key performance problems in software data planes, and it imposes very little overhead.

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    1. cloud networks
    2. performance
    3. software data plane
    4. troubleshooting

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