Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gao Lei
• Lai Mingche
• Gong Zhenghu

Titel

An Improved Parallel Access Technology on Routing Table for Threaded BGP

Ist Teil von

• 2009 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009, p.198-204

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The stringent requirement for the high efficiency of routing protocol on Internet will be satisfied by exploiting the threaded border gateway protocol (TBGP) on multi-cores. Since the TBGP performance is restricted by a mass of contentions when racing to access the routing table, a highly-efficient parallel access approach is originally proposed to achieve the ultra-high route processing speed. In this paper, a novel routing table structure consisting of two-level tries is presented for fast parallel access, and a heuristic-based divide-and-recombine algorithm is devised to balance the table accesses and release the contentions, thereby accelerating the parallel route update of multi-threading. By modifying the typical table operations such as lookup, insert, etc., the correctness of two-level tries table is validated according to the operation behaviors of traditional routing table. Experimental results on dual quad-core Xeon server show that the parallel access contentions decrease sharply by 92.5% versus traditional routing table, and the maximal update time per thread is obviously reduced by 56.8% on average with little overhead. Then, the throughput of BGP update message is measured to be improved by about 169%, delivering significant performance improvement of BGP.