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Performance Interfaces for Network Functions

Iyer, Rishabh  
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Argyraki, Katerina  
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Candea, George  
April 4, 2022
Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)

Modern programmers routinely use third-party code, and infrastructure operators deploy software they did not write. This would not be possible without semantic interfaces---documentation, header files, specifications---that succinctly describe what that third-party code does. We propose performance interfaces as a way to describe a system's performance, akin to how a semantic interface describes its functionality. We concretize this idea in the domain of network functions (NFs) and present a tool (PIX) that automatically extracts performance interfaces from NF implementations. We evaluate PIX on 12 NFs, including several used in production. The resulting performance interfaces are accurate yet orders of magnitude simpler than the code itself and take minutes to extract. We show how developers and operators can use performance interfaces to identify performance regressions, diagnose and fix performance bugs and identify the latency impact of NIC offloads.

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:000876762200033

Author(s)
Iyer, Rishabh  
Argyraki, Katerina  
Candea, George  
Date Issued

2022-04-04

Publisher

USENIX Association

Published in
Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
ISBN of the book

978-1-939133-27-4

Total of pages

19

Start page

567

End page

584

Subjects

Network Functions

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Network Function Performance

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Network Function Verification

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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NAL  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)

Renton, WA, USA

April 4-6, 2022

Available on Infoscience
June 23, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/188738
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