# Offloading distributed applications onto smartNICs using iPipe

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* Accelerate general purpose distributed applications?

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* DMA: writing to and from the host memory 
* Host communication 
  * Use DMA 

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* Multi-core processors, low power 
  * Extent of compute is limited (to offload) 
* Network applications 
  * RDMA, DPDK 

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* Packet arrive at the TX/RX ports 
* Traffic manager 
  * Abstractions between the ports and actual ports 
* NIC cores handle all traffic on both the send and receive paths 
  * Might not have computation to do 
* Tight integration of computing and communication 

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* Computation requires additional overhead 

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* Shows how many cores are needed to fully utilize the available bandwidth 
  * Max bandwidth = 10 Gbps 
* 256B: not sufficient to process that many buckets 
* Larger: saturated quickly 

Take-away

* Quantifies the default forwarding tax of smartNics 
* Dependent on packet size workload 

Workload? 

* No processing

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* Actor: logic - workload has a lot of variants. That type of actor is going to move to DRR. But actor with more uniform distribution will be on FCFS cores. 
  * Tail latency? How they measure that? 
    * Window. So might not absolute, just relative. 

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