
HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKING TODAY
High performance Networking (HPN)
Remote direct memory access traffic (RDMA)
Protocols are implemented in NIC hardware
Dedicated networks with low latency ~20us RTT
Main performance metric: flow completion time
State of the art: RoCEv2
Lossless Ethernet: PFC to prevent packet loss
ECN-CNP congestion feedback from rcv to src
Drawbacks: PFC storm, deadlock
HoL blocking slows down the network fabric
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Agg + Core
switches
Src ToR Switch
Port 1
q1
Dst ToR Switch
5. Prevent packet loss
PFC pause upstream port
Backpressure towards src
q2
q3
host 1
q1
q2
q3
Port 2
q1
q2
q3
host 2
q1
q2
q3
Rcv host
q1
q2
q3
Egress
q1
q2
q3
Ingress
1. Incast traffic
2. ECN
after q
delay
3. ACK
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4. ACK
4. ACK
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