Bluebird: High-performance SDN for Bare-metal Cloud Services
Talkat 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '22) · 2022-04-04..04-06·
summary
Bluebird implements network virtualization on Azure using P4 programmable ASICs and a control plane that pushes JSON goal states to a zonal multitenant service. Data-plane changes enlarge VXLAN VTEP space from 16k to 192k and add 32-bit VNIDs; a software-hardware route cache with DPDK SFE moves cold mappings to CPU, enabling a reported potential 5x mapping scale. Measured forwarding is full line-rate to 100 Gb/s, hardware forwarding <1 µs per ToR, software fall‑back ~9 µs, and only ~20–25% of routes are hot.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 2:30Overview of a Typical Bare Metal Infrastructure
- 3:49Network Topology
- 15:25Performance Result
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