Title

The SimplePipe Toolset Manual

Authors

Vinayak Joshi, Washington University in St. Louis
Mark A. Franklin, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2003-12-10

Filename

wucse-2003-79.pdf

DOI:

10.7936/K7W0948Z

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2003-79

Abstract

SimplePipe is a simulation framework/tool for analyzing performance effects of alternative task allocations in network processors having multiple pipelines where pipeline stages are either processors or dedicated hardware functions. Tasks are defined in terms of sequence of separate C program executions with each sequence representing the functional requirements of a flow, where a flow is defined as the set of packets having the same processing requirements. The assignment of tasks to pipeline stages, selection of number of stages, and determination of processor cache sizes are important designing decisions impacting performance.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7W0948Z

Recommended Citation

Joshi, Vinayak and Franklin, Mark A., "The SimplePipe Toolset Manual" Report Number: WUCSE-2003-79 (2003). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/1125