Linux Plumbers Conf 2014

One Line Summary

Abstract

In this talk we’ll consider the prospects of integrating networking virtualization into the Linux Networking stack in a minimally intrusive way.

Job scheduling and resource management in modern data centers is a very difficult but critical problem. Virtualizing the whole data center to allow jobs (not just VMs!) to seamlessly be migrated to optimize scheduling would be a game changer. For the networking part of this solution, we want a very lightweight solution which has no impact other than when we wish to migrate (near zero tolerance for performance regression for this function). A solution to this is to consciously integrate networking virtualization in the stack. Several
of the mechanisms that may be useful for a solution are already in place— TCP_REPAIR and network namespaces for instance. The goal is that all the existing functionality of the stack— routing, IP tables, NAT, etc.— should seamlessly be virtualization aware.

Speaker

• Tom Herbert

  Google
  Biography

  Senior Staff engineer @Google

  Sessions

  • * UDP encapsulation, FOU, GUE, & RCO
    • Title: UDP encapsulation, FOU, GUE, & RCO
    • Microconference: Network Virtualization and Security
    • One Line Summary:

      A discussion around recent work to support UDP encapsulation in the stack.

    • Speakers: Tom Herbert
  • * Integrated Network Virtualization
    • Title: Integrated Network Virtualization
    • Microconference: Network Virtualization and Security
    • One Line Summary:

      Integrated Network Virtualization is aimed at providing a minimally intrusive and highly performant network virtualization solution in the Linux stack.

    • Speakers: Tom Herbert