Introduction

This is a l2 learning switch based on DPDK.

Features

• ECN marking
• Fine-grained queue length monitoring
• Shared Memory

Requirements

• DPDK == 17.08.1
• libConfuse >= 2.7

How to run it

1. Install requirements

2. Build and Setup DPDK library, including

   • Correctly set environment variable RTE_SDK and RTE_TARGET
   • Insert IGB UIO module, setup hugpage, bind Ethernet device to IGB UIO module

3. Create a configuration file (and change configurations in it if needed)

   $ cp switch.conf.example switch.conf

4. Build and Run the application

   make

   sudo ./build/app/main -c 0x7 --log-level=7 -- -p 0xf

References

Danfeng Shan, Wanchun Jiang, and Fengyuan Ren, "Analyzing and Enhancing Dynamic Threshold Policy of Data Center Switches", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2017

Bibtex:

@ARTICLE{7859368,
    author={D. Shan and W. Jiang and F. Ren},
    journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
    title={Analyzing and Enhancing Dynamic Threshold Policy of Data Center Switches},
    year={2017},
    volume={28},
    number={9},
    pages={2454-2470},
    doi={10.1109/TPDS.2017.2671429},
    ISSN={1045-9219},
    month={Sept},}