Posts Tagged "bare metal"
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
“In this new embedded multicore era, the toughest task is the development of code to support more sophisticated systems”, says Max Domeika from Intel in the introduction to his book “Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems”.
In packet processing applications, the main concern for software developers is how to extract the highest level of performance from multicore architectures. Although a standard OS provides a high level of abstraction, Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
In a previous post, I described the different possible solutions for the Fast Path implementation.
The following table summarizes the main characteristics of these different solutions using the solution numbering defined in the diagram of the previous post.
Let’s discuss now the main criteria for selecting the best solution for your project.
First, it is very important to be sure your Fast Path can implement the different solutions, whether you will Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
When I do presentations about multicore packet processing software, I often have the following two questions: What are the possible Fast Path implementations for multicore architectures? What are the main criteria for selecting the best option?
I’m going to answer the first question in today’s post. The main selection criteria will be discussed in a further post.
First of all, we have discussed several times here in the Forum why a Fast Path is required Read More »
By Brad Suessmith - Minah Ventures - Member of Technology Advisory Board
The first part of this post can be found here.
This focus on reducing the size of the TCB is another factor in system designers looking at virtualization solutions as a means of improving the security and robustness of their systems. Given the larger TCB required with a Type 2 hypervisor, it would be wise to stick with Type 1 hypervisors for security-critical networking systems. But there are also significant differences among Read More »
By Brad Suessmith - Minah Ventures - Member of Technology Advisory Board
Alex Bachmutsky from NSN posted a series of excellent articles last fall regarding the use cases for virtualization in multicore-based networking systems, along with a review of the various suppliers. As someone who previously worked in the business development side of the embedded virtualization industry, I thought I'd take a moment to write about another critical aspect of virtualization solutions for networking software, Read More »
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