Xen Network 분석

Xen Network의 overhead

1. Each received packet must traverse the ethernet bridge to arrive ata the appropriate back-end driver

2. additional data copy required to copy a received packet from driver domain to guest memory

3. substantial overheads associated with the grant mechanism

Paper: 

@inproceedings{ram2009achieving,
  title={Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization},
  author={Ram, K.K. and Santos, J.R. and Turner, Y. and Cox, A.L. and Rixner, S.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments},
  pages={61--70},
  year={2009},
  organization={ACM}
}

@inproceedings{santos2008bridging,
  title={Bridging the gap between software and hardware techniques for i/o virtualization},
  author={Santos, J.R. and Turner, Y. and Janakiraman, G. and Pratt, I.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the USENIX’08 Annual Technical Conference},
  year={2008}
}