This segment discusses the Laconic load balancer designed for SmartNICs, focusing on enhancing layer-7 load balancing efficiency. Through characterization experiments, it highlights the challenges and prospects of offloading load balancer tasks to SmartNICs, emphasizing that traditional LB software cannot be directly migrated to SmartNICs. Instead, significant performance improvements can be attained when the software is tailored to exploit the hardware accelerators native to these devices. The section also provides empirical data comparing traditional and SmartNIC-based load balancers.
The study explores how SmartNICs can enhance load balancing performance by customizing software to leverage their hardware acceleration capabilities, rather than directly porting existing LB solutions.
Characterization experiments reveal that traditional load balancer software struggles on SmartNICs without customization, highlighting the need for tailored approaches to maximize performance on these devices.
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