1A-103_Simplifying infrastructure offload and management on SmartNICs-Intel.PDF

1、Simplifying infrastructure offload and management on SmartNICsKyle Mestery,Senior PE,IntelDeb Chatterjee,Senior Director,IntelInfrastructure Programming in 2022Architectural Compartmentalization and Domain-Specific Hardware3Mismatch of software to hardware abstractions and trust boundariesHypervisor

2、s are unable to effectively abstract domain-specific hardwareDesire to use entire host CPU for application workloadsDisaggregated and Composable System Architecture44Move from CPU-centric architecture to collection of independent devices and SW-defined device functionsGPUStorageCPUNetworkCPUNetworkG

3、PUStorageIPUs and DPUs:New chapter in modern system architecture5Key characteristics of this new architecture include:Presence of their own general purpose processorThe ability to boot a general purpose OSDomain-specific HW acceleration capabilitiesSoftware-defined device functions that allow the so

4、ftware components deployed to them to define the devices functions that are presented to the hostOffloading of whole software subsystems,such as the Networking or Storage stack,including their control planesStrict security isolation from the host on the hardware-levelUnique network identityOut-of-ba

5、nd management where the Data/Infrastructure Processing Unit(DPU/IPU)-like device is managed separately from the server where it resides or the DPU/IPU-like device can be used to manage the serverGeneralized example of a new system architecture6CPUNICUSER APPLICATION/WORKLOADBaremetal OS/Container Pl

6、atform/(Partitioning)HypervisorHW Accelerators/Offload EnginesPCIePhysical serverSmartNICNETWORK FUNCTIONSTORAGE FUNCTIONMgmt&Security Fn.Network Control PlaneStorage Control Plane Mgmt&Security CP.CPUNICUSER APPLICATION/WORKLOADNETWORKSTORAGEMgmt&Security.Baremetal OS/Container Platform/(Partitioni