Abstract
When thousands of machines coordinate a small piece of information, a network key-value store can struggle to keep up with the query load. An underlying cause of the capacity bottleneck is that the key-value store is usually held in user space, not kernel space. This disclosure leverages the run-in-kernel capabilities of a network packet filter to deliver very fast responses to key-value (hash map) requests. The network packet filter is capable of communicating with hash-map type memory accesses and can rewrite and redirect packets. When assembled this way, a packet with the query key can be returned to the requester with the value, with the entire request-response operation taking place in kernel space.
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Recommended Citation
Jackson, Andrew C., "Key-Value Store Using a Network Packet Filter Situated in the OS Kernel", Technical Disclosure Commons, (October 29, 2021)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/4685