While we understand the complex interplay of OSI layers, in theory, in practice understanding their implementation is a non-trivial task. The implementation details that enables a network interface card to communicate with its peers are oblivious to the end-users. Developers venturing into this domain for the first time often find it hard to find relevant tutorials that enable them to understand these implementation details. The aim of this talk is to provide an overview of WiFi Subsystem implemented in the Linux operating system. Specifically, this talk will explain the sequence of events that occur from application layer till physical layer when a connection is established over WiFi. After this talk, the audience will understand
(1) the bird's eye view of Linux WiFi Subsystem,
(2) what happens in an operating system when a WiFi card is plugged-in,
(3) how is a packet received/transmitted from physical layer to operating system kernel and vice-versa,
(4) brief overview of code structure of open-source drivers, and lastly
(5) important pointers to kick start driver code modifications.
Video Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa1oEyc7Dm0
Here I am describing general topics about :
1) Brief about 802.11 standard.
2) MAC layer frames
3) MLME
4) SoftMAC and HardMAC
5) Broadcom bcm43xx chipsets
6) Tx path and Rx path of brcmsmac driver
7) Mac80211 debugfs
8) Live demonstration
In this talk, we will explain the functioning of Wireless LANs in theory and in practice.
We will present the IEEE 802.11 standard in general and MAC protocols in particular, by discussing the functions of MAC sublayer management entity and the MAC layer frames in detail.
We will discuss the changes in the states of a WiFi client as it goes through the process of WiFi communication.
Towards the end, we will briefly talk about various vantage points ( at the client side as well as in the air ) that allow us to capture network traffic.
In this talk Jiří Pírko discusses the design and evolution of the VLAN implementation in Linux, the challenges and pitfalls as well as hardware acceleration and alternative implementations.
Jiří Pírko is a major contributor to kernel networking and the creator of libteam for link aggregation.
Here I am describing general topics about :
1) Brief about 802.11 standard.
2) MAC layer frames
3) MLME
4) SoftMAC and HardMAC
5) Broadcom bcm43xx chipsets
6) Tx path and Rx path of brcmsmac driver
7) Mac80211 debugfs
8) Live demonstration
In this talk, we will explain the functioning of Wireless LANs in theory and in practice.
We will present the IEEE 802.11 standard in general and MAC protocols in particular, by discussing the functions of MAC sublayer management entity and the MAC layer frames in detail.
We will discuss the changes in the states of a WiFi client as it goes through the process of WiFi communication.
Towards the end, we will briefly talk about various vantage points ( at the client side as well as in the air ) that allow us to capture network traffic.
In this talk Jiří Pírko discusses the design and evolution of the VLAN implementation in Linux, the challenges and pitfalls as well as hardware acceleration and alternative implementations.
Jiří Pírko is a major contributor to kernel networking and the creator of libteam for link aggregation.
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In this talk we revisit the changes the Linux block layer in the
last decade or so, that made it what it is today - a performant, scalable, robust and NUMA-aware subsystem. In addition, we cover the new NVMe over Fabrics support in Linux.
Sagi Grimberg
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Hypervisors are used in a broad range of domains ranging from Embedded systems, Automotive to big iron servers. The choice of hypervisor has a strong impact on the overall design of your project and its performance. This talk introduces the state of virtualization on ARM, and provides a description of three popular open source hypervisors: KVM, Jailhouse and Xen. Julien Grall explains respective key features, technical differences and suitability of the hypervisor for different application domains.
Julien Grall is a Software Virtualisation Engineer at ARM.
The talk was delivered at Root Linux Conference 2017. Learn more: http://linux.globallogic.com/materials. The video recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNXtqFJpuc
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This presentation will show the limitations and issues and how they are being addressed, then explain how implements VF multicast promiscuous mode support in ixgbe driver and VF trust, iproute2 functionality enhancement.
This presentation was delivered at LinuxCon Japan 2016 by Hiroshi Shimamoto
SOSCON 2019.10.17
What are the methods for packet processing on Linux? And how fast are each packet processing methods? In this presentation, we will learn how to handle packets on Linux (User space, socket filter, netfilter, tc), and compare performance with analysis of where each packet processing is done in the network stack (hook point). Also, we will discuss packet processing using XDP, an in-kernel fast-path recently added to the Linux kernel. eXpress Data Path (XDP) is a high-performance programmable network data-path within the Linux kernel. The XDP is located at the lowest level of access through SW in the network stack, the point at which driver receives the packet. By using the eBPF infrastructure at this hook point, the network stack can be expanded without modifying the kernel.
Daniel T. Lee (Hoyeon Lee)
@danieltimlee
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Have you ever heard of FreeBSD? Probably.
Have you ever interacted with its kernel? Probably not.
In this talk, Gili Yankovitch (nyxsecuritysolutions.com) will talk about the FreeBSD operating system, its network stack and how to write network drivers for it.
The talk will cover the following topics:
* Kernel/User interation in FreeBSD
* The FreeBSD Network Stack
* Network Buffers API
* L2 and L3 Hooking
Silently Microsoft has become top contributor on GitHub, beats Facebook, Alphabet, Docker, Apache and other competitors. OpenSource has become omnipresent in the Microsoft product portfolio. Even Windows 10 ships now with a Linux shell.
For what it’s worth – we must take a deeper look at this uneven couple!
Within this session you will learn about
– Linux on Hyper-V
– Linux on Azure
– Linux + OpenSource on OMS
Further we will focus on the benefits this love will bring to your IT environment. Join the session and leave with a Linux Bash on your Windows 10 system!
OpenContrail, Real Speed: Offloading vRouterOpen-NFP
The OpenContrail project aims to produce an open-source platform that delivers high performance software-defined networking while integrating cleanly with existing networking equipment. Netronome has added support for transparent hardware acceleration of OpenContrail's vRouter dataplane using Agilio hardware. This talk discusses the architecture of the system as well as the components we hope to open up to the broader community. We will discuss how to support transparent offload in the context of a split dataplane as well as provisioning of NFP resources required to produce a performant solution.
The Linux Block Layer - Built for Fast StorageKernel TLV
The arrival of flash storage introduced a radical change in performance profiles of direct attached devices. At the time, it was obvious that Linux I/O stack needed to be redesigned in order to support devices capable of millions of IOPs, and with extremely low latency.
In this talk we revisit the changes the Linux block layer in the
last decade or so, that made it what it is today - a performant, scalable, robust and NUMA-aware subsystem. In addition, we cover the new NVMe over Fabrics support in Linux.
Sagi Grimberg
Sagi is Principal Architect and co-founder at LightBits Labs.
Covers the basics of Direct Memory Access (DMA). Further to this, the generic Linux DMA engine is covered along with steps to initiate the DMA transfer
Rootlinux17: Hypervisors on ARM - Overview and Design Choices by Julien Grall...The Linux Foundation
Hypervisors are used in a broad range of domains ranging from Embedded systems, Automotive to big iron servers. The choice of hypervisor has a strong impact on the overall design of your project and its performance. This talk introduces the state of virtualization on ARM, and provides a description of three popular open source hypervisors: KVM, Jailhouse and Xen. Julien Grall explains respective key features, technical differences and suitability of the hypervisor for different application domains.
Julien Grall is a Software Virtualisation Engineer at ARM.
The talk was delivered at Root Linux Conference 2017. Learn more: http://linux.globallogic.com/materials. The video recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNXtqFJpuc
SR-IOV ixgbe Driver Limitations and ImprovementLF Events
SR-IOV is a device virtualization technology, it’s mainly used for improving network performance of virtual machines. However, SR-IOV has some limitations which come from hardware and/or driver implementation. For certain use case, such as Network Function Virtualization(NFV), those limitations are critical to provide services. Intel 10Gb NIC, Niantic(82599), has such limitations(e.g. VLAN filtering, multicast promiscuous) for NFV use case.
This presentation will show the limitations and issues and how they are being addressed, then explain how implements VF multicast promiscuous mode support in ixgbe driver and VF trust, iproute2 functionality enhancement.
This presentation was delivered at LinuxCon Japan 2016 by Hiroshi Shimamoto
SOSCON 2019.10.17
What are the methods for packet processing on Linux? And how fast are each packet processing methods? In this presentation, we will learn how to handle packets on Linux (User space, socket filter, netfilter, tc), and compare performance with analysis of where each packet processing is done in the network stack (hook point). Also, we will discuss packet processing using XDP, an in-kernel fast-path recently added to the Linux kernel. eXpress Data Path (XDP) is a high-performance programmable network data-path within the Linux kernel. The XDP is located at the lowest level of access through SW in the network stack, the point at which driver receives the packet. By using the eBPF infrastructure at this hook point, the network stack can be expanded without modifying the kernel.
Daniel T. Lee (Hoyeon Lee)
@danieltimlee
Daniel T. Lee currently works as Software Engineer at Kosslab and contributing to Linux kernel BPF project. He has interest in cloud, Linux networking, and tracing technologies, and likes to analyze the kernel's internal using BPF technology.
Have you ever heard of FreeBSD? Probably.
Have you ever interacted with its kernel? Probably not.
In this talk, Gili Yankovitch (nyxsecuritysolutions.com) will talk about the FreeBSD operating system, its network stack and how to write network drivers for it.
The talk will cover the following topics:
* Kernel/User interation in FreeBSD
* The FreeBSD Network Stack
* Network Buffers API
* L2 and L3 Hooking
Silently Microsoft has become top contributor on GitHub, beats Facebook, Alphabet, Docker, Apache and other competitors. OpenSource has become omnipresent in the Microsoft product portfolio. Even Windows 10 ships now with a Linux shell.
For what it’s worth – we must take a deeper look at this uneven couple!
Within this session you will learn about
– Linux on Hyper-V
– Linux on Azure
– Linux + OpenSource on OMS
Further we will focus on the benefits this love will bring to your IT environment. Join the session and leave with a Linux Bash on your Windows 10 system!
OpenContrail, Real Speed: Offloading vRouterOpen-NFP
The OpenContrail project aims to produce an open-source platform that delivers high performance software-defined networking while integrating cleanly with existing networking equipment. Netronome has added support for transparent hardware acceleration of OpenContrail's vRouter dataplane using Agilio hardware. This talk discusses the architecture of the system as well as the components we hope to open up to the broader community. We will discuss how to support transparent offload in the context of a split dataplane as well as provisioning of NFP resources required to produce a performant solution.
Using GPUs to Achieve Massive Parallelism in Java 8Dev_Events
Adam Roberts, IBM Spark Team Lead – Runtimes, IBM Cloud
Graphic processing units (GPUs) are not limited to traditional scene rendering tasks. They can play a
huge role in accelerating applications that have a large number of parallelizable tasks.
Learn how Java can exploit the power of GPUs to optimize high-performance enterprise and technical
computing applications such as big data and analytics workloads, through both explicit GPU
programming and letting the Java JIT compiler transparently off-load work to the GPU.
This presentation covers the principles and considerations for GPU programming from Java and looks at
the software stack and developer tools available. After this talk you will be ready to extract the full
power of GPUs from your own application. We will present a demo showing GPU acceleration and
discuss what is coming in the future.
his workshop will shed light on a modern solution to solve application portability, building, delivery, packaging, and system dependency issues. Containers especially Docker have seen accelerated adoption in the web, cloud and recently the enterprise. HPC environments are seeing something similar to the introduction of HPC containers Singularity and Shifter. They provide a good use case for solving software portability, not to mention ensure repeatability of results. Not to mention their ECO system provides for the better development, delivery, testing workflows that were alien to most of HPC environments. This workshop will cover the Theory and hands-on of containers and Its ecosystem. Introducing Docker and singularity containers; Docker as a general-purpose container for almost any app, Singularity as the particular container technology for HPC. The workshop will go over the foundations of the containers platform, including an overview of the platform system components: images, containers, repositories, clustering, and orchestration. The strategy is to demonstrate through "live demo, and hands-on exercises." The reuse case of containers in building a portable distributed application cluster running a variety of workloads including HPC workload.
Accelerating Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached with HPC Technologiesinside-BigData.com
DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this deck at the OpenFabrics Workshop.
"Modern HPC clusters are having many advanced features, such as multi-/many-core architectures, highperformance RDMA-enabled interconnects, SSD-based storage devices, burst-buffers and parallel file systems. However, current generation Big Data processing middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached) have not fully exploited the benefits of the advanced features on modern HPC clusters. This talk will present RDMA-based designs using OpenFabrics Verbs and heterogeneous storage architectures to accelerate multiple components of Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce, RPC, and HBase), Spark and Memcached. An overview of the associated RDMA-enabled software libraries (being designed and publicly distributed as a part of the HiBD project for Apache Hadoop (integrated and plug-ins for Apache, HDP, and Cloudera distributions), Apache Spark and Memcached will be presented. The talk will also address the need for designing benchmarks using a multi-layered and systematic approach, which can be used to evaluate the performance of these Big Data processing middleware."
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-gzg
Learn more: http://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu/
and
https://www.openfabrics.org/index.php/abstracts-agenda.html
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Eclipse JDT Embraces Java 9 – An Insider’s ViewDev_Events
Manoj Palat, IBM Cloud and Sasikanth Bharadwaj, Developer, Eclipse JDT Core
Eclipse Java Development Tooling or JDT has its own Java compiler at its core, aptly called the JDT Core
consisting of the Java compiler and various tools including java model, search infrastructure, content
assist, Abstract Syntax Tree Tools etc. Java 9 is the latest entry in the Java world bringing along-with it a
“module” of changes – so to speak. Any change in the language standards affects JDT directly. While
some of the earlier language specification changes affected only the compiler, Java 9, in contrast, has a
direct impact on user who uses Eclipse IDE for creating and managing Java Projects. Java 9 introduces
the concept of “Modules” which affects JDT from the compiler level to the project dependency layer
affecting a normal user. Support for this feature will be dealt with, in detail, in this talk.
Linux Native, HTTP Aware Network SecurityThomas Graf
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Docker and Kubernetes.
At the foundation of Cilium is a new Linux kernel technology called BPF, which enables the dynamic insertion of powerful security visibility and control logic within Linux itself. Because BPF runs inside the Linux kernel itself, Cilium security policies can be applied and updated without any changes to the application code or container configuration.
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Device configuration templates have simplified a lot of things for the network industry but most people are still managing their device properties (aka variables) manually which is very tedious and error prone. This talk will present a new approach to generate and manage network device properties easily using infrastructure as code principles.
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This talk shares some insights on how Red Hat and NEC are working together to foster collaboration in the NFV ecosystem by actively working with OpenStack and other upstream projects.
NEC has pioneered the adoption of Linux, KVM, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack for their mobile network core product line (virtualized EPC) and has gained significant experience through development work and deployments. NEC's extensions for high efficiency and high availability have led to contributions of new features to OpenStack, such as DPDK vSwitch control and CPU allocation features. For NEC, it is very important to have those features integrated into the mainstream code base for building reliable infrastructure systems.
Red Hat, one of main contributors to OpenStack, leads the development of those functions to meet NFV requirements in OpenStack, making critical and demanding applications run of top of open platforms. The presentation explains how NEC and Red Hat are integrating and optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NFV, along with contributions to open source communities, including OpenStack and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV).
The objective of this project is to make servers of web service, ftp service, VoIP video call service, and manage them centrally from a host in private connection or from remote connection. We will also monitor the services, we are going to install, from this central PC. If there is a problem found like no connectivity, then the monitor agent will notify the network administrator showing the error message.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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Tutorial WiFi driver code - Opening Nuts and Bolts of Linux WiFi Subsystem
1. Opening Nuts and Bolts of Linux
WiFi Subsystem
Dheryta Jaisinghani
2. Why do we
need to
understand
this?
I wonder
● What happens in the background (in the
Operating System) when I connect to WiFi?
● How does a packet travels all the way from my
application to kernel to air and back?
● How can I modify the code to try my own
algorithms?
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3. Structure of
this talk
● Linux WiFi Subsystem - Bird’s Eye View
● Types of WiFi drivers
● Working with code - Source, Compilation,
Kernel Module Insertion
● Flow of code - where to make changes
● Important commands - events, connection
establishment, information on card and
modules, logging
● Important pointers - Tutorials
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10. Types of
WiFi
Devices
Full MAC:
MAC in
hardware
[1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/glossary
Soft MAC:
MAC in
software
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12. Linux WiFi Subsystem - Bird’s Eye View
[1] D. Jaisinghani, -, S. Kaul, and S. Roy. Sniffer-based Inference of the Causes of Active Scanning in WiFi Networks. NCC 2017
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13. What
happens
when a WiFi
card is
plugged in?
● Device drivers load order -
○ cfg80211 -> mac80211 -> ath9k
● LibNL, Wireless Information
○ /usr/include/linux/nl80211.h
○ /proc/net/wireless
○ /proc/net/dev
● Events
○ WiFi connection establishment -
■ Associate
■ Authenticate
○ DHCP
■ Network - IP
● Terminal command - tail -f /var/log/syslog or
dmesg (Look for keywords - wpa_supplicant,
network manager, kernel, dhclient)
[1] http://moi.vonos.net/linux/wireless-stack/
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23. How is a Packet Received?
Main.c: Interrupt from hardware to
ath9k: irqreturn_t ath_isr
Recv.c : ath_rx_tasklet ()
rx.c : ieee80211_rx () ->
ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle() ->
ieee80211_rx_handlers() ->
ieee80211_deliver_skb() - go up or down to air ->
● netif_receive_skb() (rx.c) - up
● dev_queue_xmit() - send to air
[1] http://www.campsmur.cat/files/mac80211_intro.pdf
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24. How is a packet transmitted?
Kernel to interface (virtual)
Tx.c - ieee80211_subif_start_xmit()
Tx.c - ieee80211_xmit()
Tx.c - ieee80211_tx()
<ieee80211_ops>
main.c - ath9k_tx() - struct
ath_tx (ath9k.h) - 10 TX queues
xmit.c - ath_tx_start ()
xmit.c - ath_tx_txqaddbuf ()
mac.c - ath9k_hw_txstart()
Writes register in hardware
to perform transmission
[1] http://www.campsmur.cat/files/mac80211_intro.pdf
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25. Debugging
Options
Debug Ath9k
1. sudo make menuconfig - Enable debug options as specified
in the above mentioned link
2. sudo make
3. sudo make install with flags
4. modprobe ath9k debug=0x00000200 (or) modprobe
ath9k_htc debug=0x00000200
5. ATH_DBG_ANY = 0xffffffff
6. tail -f /var/log/syslog
Debug mac80211/cfg80211
1. sudo modprobe mac80211 debug=0xffffffff
2. sudo trace-cmd record -e mac80211
3. trace-cmd report -i trace.dat | grep scan
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32. Abstract
Title: Opening Nuts and Bolts of Linux WiFi Subsystem
While we understand the complex interplay of OSI layers, in theory, in practice understanding their implementation is a
non-trivial task. The implementation details that enables a network interface card to communicate with its peers are
oblivious to the end-users. Naive developers such as undergraduate and graduate students often find it hard to find relevant
tutorials that enable them to understand these implementation details.
The aim of this talk is to provide an overview of WiFi Subsystem implemented in the Linux operating system. Specifically,
this talk will explain the sequence of events that occur from application layer till physical layer when a connection is
established over WiFi.
After this talk, the audience will understand -- (1) the bird's eye view of Linux WiFi Subsystem, (2) what happens in an
operating system when a WiFi card is plugged-in, (3) how is a packet received/transmitted from physical layer to operating
system kernel and vice-versa, (4) brief overview of code structure of open-source drivers, and lastly (5) important pointers
to kickstart driver code modifications.
Duration: 30-40 minutes Add-ons: Minimal Demonstration
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