I was trying not to pitch my company on list, but the performance numbers I quoted are on the Vyatta/Brocade vRouter which is commercially available. Other vendors also also have publicly available performance numbers that are interesting.
> On Jan 28, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Paul S. <cont...@winterei.se> wrote: > > That's the problem though. > > Everyone has presentations for the most part, very few actual tools that > end users can just use exist. > > On 1/28/2015 午後 08:02, Robert Bays wrote: >>> On Jan 27, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Jim Shankland <na...@shankland.org> wrote: >>> >>> My expertise, such as it ever was, is a bit stale at this point, and my >>> figures might be a little off. But I think the general principle >>> applies: think about the minimum number of x86 instructions, and the >>> minimum number of main memory accesses, to inspect a packet header, do a >>> routing table lookup, and enqueue the packet on an outbound interface. I >>> can't see that ever getting reduced to the point where a generic server >>> can handle 40-byte packets at line rate (for that matter, "line rate" is >>> increasing a lot faster than "speed of generic server" these days). >> Using DPDK it’s possible to do everything stated and achieve 10Gbps line >> rate at 64byte packets on multiple interfaces simultaneously. Add ACLs to >> the test setup and you can reach significant portions of 10Gbps at 64byte >> packets and full line rate at 128bytes. >> >> Check out Venky Venkatesan’s presentation at the last DPDK Summit for >> interesting information on pps/CPU cycles and some of the things that can be >> done to optimize forwarding in a generic processor environment. >> >> http://www.slideshare.net/jstleger/6-dpdk-summit-2014-intel-presentation-venky-venkatesan >> >> >
