Autogenerating Fast Packet-Processing Code Using Program Synthesis
Xiangyu Gao, Taegyun Kim, Aatish Kishan Varma, Anirudh Sivaraman, Srinivas Narayana · 2019
Packet-processing code should be fast. But, it is hard to write fast code for programmable substrates such as high-speed switches, multicore SoC SmarfNICs, FP-GAs, middleboxes, and the end-host stack. Today, expert developers with deep familiarity with the underlying hardware handcraft such code. Making things worse, building optimizing compilers for these substrates requires significant development effort, which may not be available for these new, niche, and evolving substrates.