High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications
Cuckoo++ Hash Tables: High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications Nicolas Le Scouarnec Technicolor ABSTRACT identifying the connection using its 5-tuple (protocol, source Hash tables are an essential data-structure for numerous address, destination address, source port and destination networking applications (e.g., connection tracking, rewalls, port) and mapping an application-specic value to this 5- network address translators). Among these, cuckoo hash tuple. As each connection has its own state, the number of tables provide excellent performance by allowing lookups entries in the system grows with the number of ows. As to be processed with very few memory accesses (2 to 3 per each route sees many concurrent ows going over it, the lookup). Yet, for large tables, cuckoo hash tables remain mem- scale is much higher: when routing and forwarding require ory bound and each memory access impacts performance. In to consider tens of thousands of routes (L3 information), this paper, we propose algorithmic improvements to cuckoo connection tracking requires to track millions of ows. To hash tables allowing to eliminate some unnecessary mem- deal with these requirements, the association is often stored ory accesses; these changes are conducted without altering in a hash table to access it eciently. the properties of the original cuckoo hash table so that all High-performance hash tables often rely on bucketized existing theoretical analysis remain applicable. On a single cuckoo hash-table [5, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 29] for they feature core, our hash table achieves 37M lookups per second for excellent read performance by guaranteeing that the state positive lookups (i.e., when the key looked up is present in associated to some connection can be found in less than the table), and 60M lookups per second for negative lookups, three memory accesses.
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