Client Overview
A leading US-based switching silicon manufacturer targeting network switches for enterprise IT infrastructures and data centers.
Business Challenge
- Optimize packet processing capabilities for data plane on ARM-based SoCs used for purpose-built and virtualized networking
- Measure network throughput performance after DPDK porting
VOLANSYS Contribution
- DPDK compatible user-space driver development and optimization
- Traffic generator application to validate performance improvement
- OS virtualization on OcteonTX using Qemu
- Generated various packet types at different line rate and packet size
- Analyzed performance and received packet integrity
- Statistics and Data Benchmarking
- L3 forwarding application
- SoC initialization and configuration
- Configured traffic forwarding
- Memory management
- Validated DPDK porting performance optimization
Benefits Delivered
- Faster packet processing
- Enabled high-performance Linux networking