NetEdit: An Orchestration Platform for eBPF Network Functions at Scale
Theophilus Benson, Prashanth Kannan, Prankur Gupta, Balasubramanian Madhavan, Kumar Saurabh Arora, Jie Meng, Martin Lau, Abhishek Dhamija, Rajiv Krishnamurthy, Srikanth Sundaresan, Neil T. Spring, Ying Zhang · 2024
Managing the performance of thousands of services across millions of servers demands a networking stack that can dynamically adjust protocol settings to match diverse priorities and network characteristics. Moreover, given the constantly evolving nature of services and their requirements, the set of configurable protocols must remain adaptable. However, current host networking stacks lack the necessary flexibility and adaptability. Although eBPF shows promise in this regard, it lacks essential primitives for efficient development and safe deployment of multiple co-existing services.