It’s also what I understood.
On Sun 02 Nov 2025 07:40:12 GMT, Mike Neo wrote: > And isn't it true that the speed of a single core is very important for > routing daemons (control plane), but less so for packet forwarding (data > plane), which can be parallelized between cores, especially in Linux? > > niedz., 2 lis 2025 o 07:05 Mike Neo <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > 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 > >> > >
