We would like to cover the following topics. This is not an exhaustive list and if you feel there is something missing that you want to talk about, contact the session chair and your topic will be included here.

Please send talks, brainstorm topics, or other proposals to the session leaders, LawrenceStewart and GlebSmirnoff.

• Protocols
  • TCP
  • Hostcache

• Performance optimisation
  • Routing table
  • Fast path locking
  • Fast path cache misses, amount of memory accessed per read/write (Adrian)

• MBUFS
  • Ref counting
    Problem: uint32_t's coming from single zone result in 16 sharing a cache line on modern x86 machines, which causes cache thrashing
    Possible solutions:
    
• Multi-(process|thread) accept (Gleb) Problem:
  Possible solutions:
  
• Light weight ref counter based on count(9) (Gleb) Problem:
  

• Testing
  • NSC userpsace stack Overview:
    
  • Testing @ Netflix (Lawrence)
  • Testing @ Orange (Olivier)

• Ownership

These are the possible topics for this working group. Ideally, someone will volunteer to research the current state to allow an informed discussion to take place. Please contact the session leaders, LawrenceStewart and GlebSmirnoff, to coordinate. The session leaders will set the final working agenda based on feedback received.

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