F-Stack: A High-Performance Open-Source Network Framework Based on DPDK
The rapid advancement of Network Interface Cards (NICs) has exposed the performance bottleneck of Linux kernel data packet processing. To meet the internet's demand for high-performance network processing, kernel bypass technologies like DPDK, NETMAP, and PF_RING have gained prominence. F-Stack is a high-performance open-source network framework built on DPDK. It utilizes the Linux kernel only for control flow, processing all data streams in user space. This avoids performance bottlenecks caused by kernel packet copying, thread scheduling, system calls, and interrupts. F-Stack includes a user-space TCP/IP stack (based on FreeBSD 11.0 stable), POSIX APIs (Socket, Epoll, Kqueue), a programming SDK (Coroutine), and interfaces for applications like Nginx and Redis, aiming for superior network processing performance.