Design and Performance Evaluation of IPoIB Gateway

Author

Xiao, Zifeng ; Zhang, Hongwei ; Zhou, Yonghao ; Han, Jizhong

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

8

Abstract

InfiniBand provides a high-bandwidth, low-latency network, and has been widely adopted in modern storage and computing systems. However, Ethernet fabric is still widely used which has different characteristics in protocol and performance. Therefore, an Ethernet-to-InfiniBand gateway must be built to implement protocol conversion and bandwidth aggregation. This paper introduces a software implementation of Ethernet-to-InfiniBand gateway based on IPoIB protocol. Moreover, several network test tools are compared and used to evaluate the performance of IPoIB gateway. Performance evaluation results show that IP fragmentation operations and high CPU utilization of software interruption are the bottlenecks of the system, and they are good references for the design of hardware Ethernet-to-InfiniBand gateway

Keywords

IP networks; internetworking; local area networks; performance evaluation; transport protocols; Ethernet-to-InfiniBand gateway; IP fragmentation operations; IPoIB gateway; IPoIB protocol; bandwidth aggregation; high CPU utilization; high-bandwidth network; low-latency network; network test tools; protocol conversion; software interruption; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Delay; Ethernet networks; Fabrics; Hardware; Open source software; Protocols; Software performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking, Architecture, and Storages, 2006. IWNAS '06. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2651-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWNAS.2006.26

Filename

1654520