On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 1:49 am Bruno Henc <[email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > > Another good explanation on what DPDK does is available here: > > > https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/oscon-2017/9781491976227/9781491976227-video306685 > > https://wiki.fd.io/images/1/1d/40_Gbps_IPsec_on_commodity_hardware.pdf > > > > On 2/10/19 12:21 PM, Aleksandar Lazic wrote: > > Am 10.02.2019 um 12:06 schrieb Lukas Tribus: > >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 10:48, Aleksandar Lazic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> > >>> I have seen this in some twitter posts and asked me if it's something > useable for a Loadbalancer like HAProxy ? > >>> > >>> https://www.dpdk.org/ > >>> > >>> To be honest it looks like a virtual NIC, but I'm not sure. > >> See: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26748.html > > 8-O Sorry I have forgotten that Question. > > Sorry the noise and thanks for your patience. > > > >> lukas > > Greetings > > Aleks > > >
Acording to this: DPDK allows the host to process packets faster by bypassing the Linux kernel. Instead, interactions with the NIC are performed using drivers and the DPDK libraries. It might help network performance. Source https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/vm-series/8-0/vm-series-deployment/set-up-the-vm-series-firewall-on-kvm/performance-tuning-of-the-vm-series-for-kvm/integrate-open-vswitch-with-dpdk.html It is discussed in context of KVM and OvS so not sure if useful in other cases. >
