[106305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Alston)
Sat Jul 26 07:12:32 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:11:53 +0200
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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On 2008/07/26 01:05 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Traditionally, software routing performance on hosts systems has been
>> optimized for few and rather long flows.
>
> Yup.
>
> And I always ask that question when people claim really high(!) throughput on
> software forwarding. It turns out their throughput was single source/single
> dest, and/or large packets (so high throughput, but low pps.)
I assume though that all of this is on x86 platform hardware. How does
this compare to Linux or FreeBSD running on something else like the
Cavium Octeon and other 64bit MIPS based processors?
