This Project is an extension to the NetFPGA based Network Interface Card(NIC). That adds a limited NIC virtualization capability and provides

Ability to rate limit the traffic per virtual queue.

Download:

The project source code can be downloaded on NetFPGA website.

Description:

The project provides a limited virtual network interface card, that can be used to rate limit the traffic to the virtual machines e.g; Xen etc.

Decreasing the number of interrupts to the virtual machine and saving CPU cycles in the hypervisor that alleviates the job of CPU to schedule only CPU processes and not worry about extra Network I/O traffic.

Usage:

The Virtualized Network Interface Card can be used with Xen 3.3 hyper visor using the existing drivers.

Regression Tests:

1- test_macve_table: Sees if the VNIC lookup table is writeable and readable.

2- test_macve_misses: Sees if the packet is dropped in case of a MAC miss.

• NF2.tar.gz: IP VNIC Release