Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized Infrastructures
draft-dcn-bmwg-containerized-infra-05
Benchmarking Methodology Working Group K. Sun
Internet-Draft H. Yang
Intended status: Informational J. Lee
Expires: May 6, 2021 H. Nguyen
Y. Kim
Soongsil University
November 02, 2020
Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized
Infrastructures
draft-dcn-bmwg-containerized-infra-05
Abstract
This draft describes considerations for benchmarking network
performance in containerized infrastructures. In the containerized
infrastructure, Virtualized Network Functions(VNFs) are deployed on
operating-system-level virtualization platform by abstracting the
user namespace as opposed to virtualization using a hypervisor.
Leveraging this, the system configurations and networking scenarios
for benchmarking will be partially changed by the way in which the
resource allocation and network technologies specified for
containerized VNFs. In this draft, we compare the state of the art
in a container networking architecture with networking on VM-based
virtualized systems, and provide several test scenarios for
benchmarking network performance in containerized infrastructures.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Benchmarking Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Comparison with the VM-based Infrastructure . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Container Networking Classification . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. Resource Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Benchmarking Scenarios for the Containerized Infrastructure . 10
5. Additional Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. Benchmarking Experience(Contiv-VPP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1. Benchmarking Environment(Contiv-VPP) . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.2. Trouble shooting and Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Benchmarking Experiment(SR-IoV-DPDK) . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1. Benchmarking Environment(SR-IoV-DPDK) . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.2. Trouble shooting and Result(SR-IoV-DPDK) . . . . . . . . 23
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9. Acknkowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1. Introduction
The Benchmarking Methodology Working Group(BMWG) has recently
expanded its benchmarking scope from Physical Network Function(PNF)
running on a dedicated hardware system to Network Function
Virtualization(NFV) infrastructure and Virtualized Network
Function(VNF). [RFC8172] described considerations for configuring
NFV infrastructure and benchmarking metrics, and [RFC8204] gives
guidelines for benchmarking virtual switch which connects VNFs in
Open Platform for NFV(OPNFV).
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