As far as I understand it, BIRD 3 implements multithreading by allowing different protocol instances or routing tables to run on separate worker threads, but each individual bgp protocol instance itself still operates mostly in a single-threaded manner. Right?
niedz., 2 lis 2025 o 00:24 Alarig Le Lay via Bird-users < [email protected]> napisał(a): > Hello, > > On Sat 01 Nov 2025 21:48:22 GMT, Mike Neo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's more important for a bird, the clock speed of a single processor > > core or the number of physical cores? > > For example, which is the better choice: > > 8x2.2 GHz or 4x3.8 GHz > > > > Kind regards, > > Mike > > I always prefer the performance per core. Even if bird3 is > multi-threaded, you’ll always have some locks between the threads (eg. > compute and actual next-hop from BGP using OSPF). > And on pure routing, the higher the frequency is, the fastest the packet > is routed. > > -- > Alarig >
