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MMB&DFT 2012: Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependability and Fault Tolerance pp 197–205Cite as

Performance Evaluation of 10GE NICs with SR-IOV Support: I/O Virtualization and Network Stack Optimizations

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SR-IOV has been proposed to improve the performance and scalability of I/O in Virtual machines and some 10GE NICs supporting this functionality have already appeared on the market. In addition to the SR-IOV support, these NICs all provide optimizations for various network layers within the OS kernel. In this paper we try to present a comprehensive view of the performance gain by SR-IOV. This study is conducted by evaluating the performance of 10GE NICs with SR-IOV support at different layers in various virtualized environments.

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  1. Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Shu Huang & Ilia Baldine

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  1. disco - Distributed Computer Systems Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Kaiserslautern, Building 36, P.O. Box 3049, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Jens B. Schmitt

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Huang, S., Baldine, I. (2012). Performance Evaluation of 10GE NICs with SR-IOV Support: I/O Virtualization and Network Stack Optimizations. In: Schmitt, J.B. (eds) Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependability and Fault Tolerance. MMB&DFT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28540-0_14

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