An edge-queued datagram service for all datacenter traffic

Vladimir Olteanu, Haggai Eran, Dragos Dumitrescu, Adrian Popa, Cristi Baciu, Mark Silberstein, Georgios Nikolaidis, Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu

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Abstract

Modern datacenters support a wide range of protocols and in-network switch enhancements aimed at improving performance. Unfortunately, the resulting protocols often do not coexist gracefully because they inevitably interact via queuing in the network. In this paper we describe EQDS, a new datagram service for datacenters that moves almost all of the queuing out of the core network and into the sending host. This enables it to support multiple (conflicting) higher layer protocols, while only sending packets into the network according to any receiver-driven credit scheme. EQDS can transparently speed up legacy TCP and RDMA stacks, and enables transport protocol evolution, while benefiting from future switch enhancements without needing to modify higher layer stacks. We show through simulation and multiple implementations that EQDS can reduce FCT of legacy TCP by 2x, improve the NVMeOF-RDMA throughput by 30%, and safely run TCP alongside RDMA on the same network.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022
Pages761-777
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781939133274
StatePublished - 2022
Event19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022 - Renton, United States
Duration: 4 Apr 20226 Apr 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022

Conference

Conference19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRenton
Period4/04/226/04/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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