A platform for high performance and flexible virtual routers on commodity hardware
Norbert Egi, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark James Handley, Mickaël Hoerdt, Felipe Huici, Laurent Mathy, Panagiotis Papadimitriou · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2010
Multi-core CPUs, along with recent advances in memory and buses, render commodity hardware a strong candidate for software router virtualization. In this context, we present the design of a new platform for virtual routers on modern PC hardware. We further discuss our design choices in order to achieve both high performance and flexibility for packet processing.