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revisiting the open vSwitch dataplane ten years later
2021
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference
This paper shares our experience in supporting and running the Open vSwitch (OVS) software switch, as part of the NSX product for enterprise data center virtualization used by thousands of VMware customers. From its origin in 2009, OVS split its code between tightly coupled kernel and userspace components. This split was necessary at the time for performance, but it caused maintainability problems that persist today. In addition, in-kernel packet processing is now much slower than newer options
doi:10.1145/3452296.3472914
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