1. Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS fredk@arl.wustl.edu MSR Tasks for Fall 2001 Fred Kuhns, John DeHart and Ken Wong

2. 2 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Notes Format is: job - primary/secondary primary - person responsible for task completion, integrator and facilitator. secondary - person assisting, –assists with or performs the development work. No secondary, then the primary performs both the integrator and developer roles Multiple secondaries, then comma separated list secondary == ???, means a secondary is needed co-primaries == primary1 | primary |...

3. 3 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Short Term Tasks - 1 Month Full MSR test: jdd – Week of 9/10 –forwarding; GUI - display DQ, port BW usage Switch and SPC management - jp|jdd – Mostly Done –ATM cell and control library; MSR configuration object MSR Initialization - jdd/jp – system(3) version done Management tool development - kenw/jp –CP integration: DQ, interface definition, stat collection –GUI enhancements: Display DQ and MSR specific metrics Standard Routing Protocols (OSPF) - fredk/Sumi –route table management and download to SPCs Support multiple previous/next hops – fredk|Berkley –virtual interfaces on CP and Zebra support; - Berkley –SPC support – fredk HW FIPL implementation and testing – David/JDD

4. 4 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Intermediate Term Tasks - 3 Months Per virtual output packet scheduling - fredk/Prashanth –One option: two priority queues: high and low priority –Alternate: DRR service for source addr/network MSR Test (QA) - jdd/all –route updates; multiple previous/next hop configurations Support Active Processing (simple version) - fredk –CP: Route manager extension; Plugin download and control –SPC: plugin environment, plugin download "hooks"; SW version, lightweight flow setup mechanism - jdd/??? –initial design and begin prototype Test and Demo Environment Development - kenw/jp –Demo orchestration –Wave demo porting –Demo display (NMVC GUI) linked to demo scenarios FPX Integration into MSR – fredk|jdd|det|j

5. 5 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Out-of-Band Gigabit Ethernet mockup SPCII

6. 6 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Demo Notes WaveVideo –active plugin env. –packet scheduler - reports number of active flows, reports BW allocation (it is a fair allocation between all flows) –MSR environment DQ can provide per virtual output port BW allocation per flow BW allocation? Will DQ reactions be too fast for WV?

7. 7 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Extreme Network Services - Notes Lightweight Flow Setup Service –one-way unicast flow with reserved bandwidth, soft-state –stable rate and transient rate reservations Network Access Service (NAS) –provides controlled access to LFS –registration/authentication of hosts, users –resource usage data collection for monitoring, accounting Reserved Tree Service (RTS) –configured, semi-private network infrastructure for information service providers –reserved bandwidth, separate queues for traffic isolation –paced upstream forwarding with source-based queues for isolation and DOS protection

8. 8 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Extreme Network Tasks - Notes Per source aggregate queues based on source prefix –SW: instead: two priorities, distributed –HW: DRR service; Discard policy is longest queue with hysteresis, discard front Super scalable packet scheduling (HW only??) –approximate radix sort w/compensation (timing wheels) Lightweight flow setup protocol implementation –flow identification in SPC, returns virtual output queue –framework for managing BW allocations and unfulfilled requests –interface to NAS Reserved Tree Service: Hardware only. Distributed Queuing NAS implementations: SW tasks? –User authentication, policy enforcement, monitoring and feedback

9. 9 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Intermediate to Long Term CPU scheduling but no preemption (DRR with feedback - weights) Resource and Signaling manager - fredk/??? –Skeleton implementation - resource allocation and admission control. –allocate SPC resources and plugins –plugin download and control –HW only: fipl/ip lookup enhancements (flow matching) Support Enhanced routing (flexroute) - kenw/??? –CP: route attributes, TBD SW version, lightweight flow setup protocol - jdd/??? –complete prototype - route pinning, signaling protocol, host based daemons, infrastructure developement

10. 10 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Initialization - jdd/jp Reset switch and ports Setup Connections (VCs) Discover Configuration Download kernels to installed SPCs Read configuration file (parse) Configure ports –Create initial routing tables, down load to SPCs; run route manager, build table –Set global pacing, policy (route), policy (debug), set_debug (level and modules), port_init (dq, port number)

11. 11 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Management Tool - kenw/jp Network Management SW Architecture on CP? Read Only GBNSC, used for polling switch –Not integrated into MSR manager. MSR Monitoring and Remote Management –Sending data to GUI –Active metric collection –Passive monitoring of DQ and display requirements format, temporal resolution, processing overhead –Metric and display evaluation

12. 12 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Management Tool - kenw/jp Support MSR Testing –test/demo configuration and setup –identify meaningful metrics and display architecture Display and "manage" MSR configuration –interface to init MSR, change per port attributes –reset MSR –set runtime parameters

13. 13 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Lab, Test and Demo - kenw/all Define demos, experiment/development environments, data presentation (GUI), coordination Define and Implement test scenarios: –DQ - traffic sources, patters, validation techniques, data collection –Throughput and resource management –Active Processing Demo - Port Wave Plugin to MSR –Other??

14. 14 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 ATM Cell and Control - jp/jdd ATM cell and control library MSR configuration manager –configuration discovery –SW representation of the hardware configuration. –We may also want to store software (logical) attributes such as Port IP addresses, virtual interfaces and netmasks.

15. 15 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 CP Environment - fredk/all MSR Manager module - jp –framework for all other modules (route, resource, configuration and signaling managers) Routing Framework (Zebra) integration - fredk –OSPF and Zebra need integration with fipl (Rt Manager) –Add support for virtual interfaces on CP: verify/modify how Linux reports the interface id. used by Zebra for binding next hops with route updates. Must see distinct virtual interfaces FIPL route manager module - Sumi –integrate with Zebra –integrate SPC fipl and FPX implementations of fipl –Add three fields 32bit field in route table: define interface which assigns fields: plugin chain id, output port and output virtual interface

16. 16 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 CP Environment - ??? Port CP apps to Linux environment - jdd Support enhanced routing protocol - ??? –resource availability and layered graph processing intrinsic support for LFS and NAS: Implement queuing discipline which accounts for both best- effort and reserved traffic –simple hooks in SW, HW is real implementation –allocate per flow queues and implement mechanisms –define interaction with DQ - maybe DQ is all we need

17. 17 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Signaling/Resource - fredk|kenw SW version, Lightweight Flow Setup - jdd/??? –design and prototype –integrate with resource and signaling managers Resource Manager - fredk/??? –Monitory and control plugin environment –Plugin allocation, location, download and initialization –track per port resource allocations and current BE loading –Perform resource allocation and admission control Resource = Plugin, CPU, memory and Bandwidth Signaling Manager - kenw/??? –request local resource allocations: plugin, bandwidth: plugin has embedded cpu and memory requirements?? –define interface to pin routes and allocate necessary resources requirements - see rtnotes.ppt

18. 18 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 SPC Environment - fredk/??? Add shim to each packet to identify output virtual interface –Output port uses shim to demultiplex to correct output VC Enhance IP forwarding module –support virtual interfaces: more than 1 previous/next hop –Add support for local delivery to CP –flow classification: check for plugin chain/BW reservation fipl extended to return 3 fields –either add second route table or modify current for exact match on 104 bit vector (rtnotes.ppt)

19. 19 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 SPC Environment - fredk/??? Per virtual output port packet scheduling –DRR within a virtual output queue? –two level priority? –DRR within source aggregate queues??? SPC Resource Allocation and plugin environment –Simple approach first: emulate modload. Verify we can do linking step on CP –allocate memory (text and data) for plugins –download plugins directly to DRAM –design/implement plugin resource manager

20. 20 Washington WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Fred Kuhns - 1/9/01 Available Students Sumi - Route Manager Anshul - focused on finishing Samphel - wants to finish. Prashanth - Queuing Sherlia - finishing up Ed - Limited availability. LFS? Tilman - finishing up.