Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload

  • Xiangrui Yang
  • , Lars Eggert
  • , Jörg Ott
  • , Steve Uhlig
  • , Zhigang Sun
  • , Gianni Antichi

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Abstract

This paper aims at defining the right set of primitives a NIC shall expose to efficiently offload the QUIC protocol. Although previous work already partially tackled this problem, it has only considered one specific aspect: The crypto module. We instead dissect different QUIC implementations, and perform an in-depth analysis of the cost associated to many of its components. We find that the kernel to userspace communication, the crypto module and the packet reordering algorithm are CPU hungry and often the cause of application performance degradation. We use those findings to define an architecture for offloading QUIC and discuss the associated challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEPIQ 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages21-27
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380478
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Aug 2020
Event2020 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC, EPIQ 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 10 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameEPIQ 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC

Conference

Conference2020 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC, EPIQ 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/08/2014/08/20

Keywords

  • Acceleration
  • Measurements
  • Network Profiling

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