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Does any distro actually ship this protocol or it's just an optional kernel module?
by est 5y ago
Does any distro actually ship this protocol or it's just an optional kernel module?
- throwaway81523 5y agoAnd if it's a kernel module, why is it done that way instead of putting it in DPDK which is faster anyway?
- xxpor 5y agoSwitching over to DPDK is waaaaaaaaaaay harder than switching to a new type of socket.
- dundarious 5y agoBuying a Solarflare card, using LD_PRELOAD, and leaving code as-is is relatively cheap though. But completely abandons the issue of whether Homa should be implemented in userspace of course.
- Animats 5y agoThe original version, at Stanford, was in DPDK.[1] This is a re-implementation at Google, right? [1] https://github.com/PlatformLab/Homa https://github.com/PlatformLab/Homa
- lttlrck 5y agoMoving to user-space is mentioned in the paper.