OpenNIC and DPDK: Catalysts for Transformation

The forefront of network acceleration revolution are OpenNIC and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). OpenNIC provides a flexible and programmable environment for deploying custom network functions, while DPDK empowers SmartNIC-Accelerator Card with high-performance packet processing capabilities. Together, they form a dynamic duo, propelling networks into a new era of efficiency and adaptability.

Categories: SmartNIC, Product Solutions

FPGA Design

FPGA Design Feature

Packet size 64 – 9600 bytes
Line rate 2 × 100 Gbps/ 140 Mpps traffic burst (Packet size of 64 bytes), PCIe Gen3
Supported IPs are QDMA, CMAC, Packet Adapter, System Management Wizard, Clock Wizard
Two User Logic Box of 250 MHz QDMA – Packet Adapter, 322MHz Packet Adpater – QDMA

DMA engines operate based on the descriptors.
PS based solutions
RTL plugins for AXI-lite interface and AXI4-stream interfaces.
Temperature – Voltage Monitor and control data transfer to SmartNIC.

DPDK

DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) with its user space drivers, PMD, and optimized libraries increases the performance

DPDK Software

Feature

Link status, speed and duplex configuration
Promiscuous mode
MTU update
Jumbo frame
Flow control
Unicast MAC filter
Fast mbuf free
Timestamp offload and PTP TimeSync
VLAN filter
SR-IOV

Platform, Drivers and Applications

OS and Supported Applications
Operating System : Linux ( RHEL8 OS, Ubuntu )
Base application : DPDK, Python, Meson, Ninja
Packet Generation : Pktgen-DPDK, TRex
Packet Capture : Tcpdump & libpcap
Software drivers :
(a) For an IOMMU enabled device : VFIO – PCI
(b) For legacy interrupts : IGB-UIO

NIC standards

IEEE 802.3 100G Ethernet

Design

L2 / L3 forward QoS framework
Packet Generation
IP Pipeline for flow classification / firewall / routing / segmentation / reassembly
ACL – Access Control List
management- Server / VMs
Virtio-IO support for VMs/Containers/Dockers
OpenVSwitch
Crypto Framework
IP-Sec Gateway