Internship 2022 - Benchmarking eBPF based solutions

Project Name: XDP performance studies for cloud-native NFV Usecases
Mentor: Sridhar Rao Al Morton
Mentee: Shivank Chaudhary
Tenure: 6 Months (Start- 9 June 2022)

Tasks and Progress:

S. No	Task	Week	Related LInks	Outcomes	Status
1	Setup VPP(Vector Packet Processing) and run Trex Traffic Gen to benchmark it.	week 1	https://medium.com/@shivank1128/vpp-benchmark-with-trex-traffic-generator-6cfcecb931a9	Learned the following: 1) How to attach and De-attach NIC from DPDK. 2) How to benchmark with Trex Traffic gen.	Completed
2	Attach an eBPF program to Kernel and Benchmark it with Trex.	week 2 & 3	https://gitlab.com/mergetb/tech/network-emulation/kernel/-/tree/v5.5-moa/samples/bpf https://github.com/ilejn/xdpbridge https://github.com/Alt-Shivam/SetupMachineForXDP https://www.spinics.net/lists/xdp-newbies/msg01481.html	1) upgraded the kernel version to 5.4 on Node4 (DUT). 2)	InProgress
3	Setup Open Virtual Switch and create a loopback between interfaces and hence benchmark it with Trex.	Week 4	http://solomon.ipv6.club.tw/Course/SDN/howto_install_ovs_on_centos7.html https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-use-openvswitch-kvm-centos-7-rhel-7/ https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/10/html-single/ovs-dpdk_end_to_end_troubleshooting_guide/index	1) Installed OVS on Node4. 2)	InProgress
4	Upgrade Node4 from Centos 7 to Fedora 36.	*