How to Accelerate OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6: Hardware Offload Design & Implementation

This article explains the challenges of using community OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6 NIC for hardware offload, details the design and implementation of Cx6 offload configuration, flow‑table match/action adaptation, Conn‑based large‑flow offload, and the coordination mechanism between hardware‑offloaded and software flow tables to achieve significant CPU savings while preserving security‑group and connection‑tracking correctness.

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How to Accelerate OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6: Hardware Offload Design & Implementation

Tencent Architect

Dec 28, 2023 · Cloud Computing

How Tencent’s TGW Architecture Revolutionizes Public Cloud Load Balancing

This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of Tencent Gateway (TGW), detailing its evolution from TGW 1.0 to 2.0, the introduction of Region EIP, the redesign of public CLB, the Shanhai architecture, and future hardware‑offload directions for high‑performance cloud networking.

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How Tencent’s TGW Architecture Revolutionizes Public Cloud Load Balancing

vivo Internet Technology

May 17, 2023 · Information Security

How Intel QAT Accelerates TLS: Multi-Buffer Software vs. Hardware Offload

Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) offers both Multi‑Buffer SIMD software acceleration and dedicated hardware offload to dramatically speed up TLS handshakes, with up to 5× faster RSA signing and 12× faster ECDH key exchange, while maintaining compatibility via OpenSSL’s async engine.

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How Intel QAT Accelerates TLS: Multi-Buffer Software vs. Hardware Offload

UCloud Tech

Jan 7, 2021 · Cloud Native

How UCloud Transformed Its VPC: From Classic Networks to Cloud‑Native Performance

This article chronicles UCloud's VPC evolution—from early classic two‑layer networks through SDN‑based VPC 2.0 and the hardware‑integrated VPC 3.0 architecture, covering microservice migration, telemetry, dynamic flow learning, and high‑performance hardware offload to meet modern cloud networking demands.

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How UCloud Transformed Its VPC: From Classic Networks to Cloud‑Native Performance

JD Tech Talk

Jan 6, 2021 · Backend Development

JDDLB Architecture and QAT SSL/TLS Hardware Acceleration Optimization

This article details the overall architecture of JD.com Data Science's JDDLB load balancer, its high‑performance and high‑availability features, and presents a comprehensive performance comparison of SSL/TLS offloading using Intel QAT acceleration cards, including async processing, user‑space driver zero‑copy implementation, crash analysis, and process‑level engine scheduling.

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JDDLB Architecture and QAT SSL/TLS Hardware Acceleration Optimization