It is well known that the Linux Operating System provides a complete and effective support to networking functionalities, to be widely used in many advanced fields, like software routers and Grid architectures, among others. Notwithstanding the rising popularity and the continuous development of the Linux Operating System, there is no clear indication about the maximum networking performance level that it can achieve and no information about the computational weight required by packet processing operations. Our main aim in this work is to analyze and to optimize the Linux networking stack performance, trying to evaluate the impact of networking functionalities on the whole system. To this purpose, to better characterize the performance bottlenecks, we have performed both external and internal measurements, benchmarking both a standard Linux kernel and an optimized version.
Analyzing and Optimizing the Linux Networking Stack
BOLLA, RAFFAELE;BRUSCHI, ROBERTO;RANIERI, ANDREA;TRAVERSO, GIOVANNIBATTISTA
2008-01-01
Abstract
It is well known that the Linux Operating System provides a complete and effective support to networking functionalities, to be widely used in many advanced fields, like software routers and Grid architectures, among others. Notwithstanding the rising popularity and the continuous development of the Linux Operating System, there is no clear indication about the maximum networking performance level that it can achieve and no information about the computational weight required by packet processing operations. Our main aim in this work is to analyze and to optimize the Linux networking stack performance, trying to evaluate the impact of networking functionalities on the whole system. To this purpose, to better characterize the performance bottlenecks, we have performed both external and internal measurements, benchmarking both a standard Linux kernel and an optimized version.
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