SGX-Bundler: speeding up enclave transitions for IO-intensive applications
Svenningsson, Jakob ; Paladi, Nicolae LU
and Vahidi, Arash
(2022)
The 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing
p.269-278
- Abstract
- Process-based confidential computing enclaves such as Intel SGX can be used to protect the confidentiality and integrity of workloads, without the overhead of virtualisation. However, they introduce a notable performance overhead, especially when it comes to transitions in and out of the enclave context. Such overhead makes the use of enclaves impractical for running IO-intensive applications, such as network packet processing or biological sequence analysis. We build on earlier approaches to improve the IO performance of work-loads in Intel SGX enclaves and propose the SGX-Bundler library, which helps reduce the cost of both individual single enclave transitions well as of the total number of enclave transitions in trusted applications... (More)
- Process-based confidential computing enclaves such as Intel SGX can be used to protect the confidentiality and integrity of workloads, without the overhead of virtualisation. However, they introduce a notable performance overhead, especially when it comes to transitions in and out of the enclave context. Such overhead makes the use of enclaves impractical for running IO-intensive applications, such as network packet processing or biological sequence analysis. We build on earlier approaches to improve the IO performance of work-loads in Intel SGX enclaves and propose the SGX-Bundler library, which helps reduce the cost of both individual single enclave transitions well as of the total number of enclave transitions in trusted applications running in Intel SGX enclaves. We describe the implementation of the SGX-Bundler library, evaluate its performance and demonstrate its practicality using the case study of Open vSwitch, a widely used software switch implementation. (Less)
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- author
- Svenningsson, Jakob
; Paladi, Nicolae
LU
and Vahidi, Arash
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-04-12
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- SGX, Hardware security, Open vSwitch, performance optimization
- host publication
- Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing : CCGrid 2022 - CCGrid 2022
- pages
- 269 - 278
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- The 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing
- conference location
- Taorina
- conference dates
- 2022-05-16 - 2022-05-19
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85135761247
- ISBN
- 978-166549956-9
- DOI
- 10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00036
- project
- Säkra mjukvaruuppdateringar för den smarta staden
- language
- English
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